Timeline for Quantifying the advantages of a modern version control system [closed]
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 3:02 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 22:13 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 17:21 | comment | added | Mike | "put on hold as primarily opinion-based " I very much disagree with this. From my question "What I'm trying to find are concrete facts demonstrating developers work more effectively with Git." What is opinion based about that? | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 17:10 | history | closed |
gnat BЈовић jwenting user40980 Bart van Ingen Schenau |
Opinion-based | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 13:41 | comment | added | 17 of 26 | If they're interested in dollars, show them the annual ClearCase licensing fees and the staff you have to pay to maintain it. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 13:30 | answer | added | JvR | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 13:10 | answer | added | nha | timeline score: 3 | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 11:25 | comment | added | Bobson | Worth checking out: workplace.stackexchange.com/a/13918/2341 | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 11:20 | answer | added | utnapistim | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 10:14 | answer | added | Jack Aidley | timeline score: 6 | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 7:41 | comment | added | gbjbaanb | @JanHudec sort-of true. I worked with Doors, for example, awful product.. until we used an alternative , then we realised what Doors gave us and figured it was more of a usability issue. IBM has good tools that do good stuff, but look dreadful. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 7:28 | answer | added | gbjbaanb | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 7:23 | comment | added | Jan Hudec | @randomA: IBM has a system of tools, of which all I've seen were crap. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 6:51 | comment | added | jwenting | sounds like your way of thinking is "it's newer therefore it's better". If and when you find real reasons to support your idea that something is superior to something else, you have all you need. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 5:10 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 5:09 | answer | added | Jace Browning | timeline score: 22 | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 5:05 | comment | added | InformedA | @metacubed yes and IBM has even more comprehensive system of tools from DB to webapp to dev tools, email etc... One of the major pitches they have is that they work to make these things better together so one should try getting them all. Replacing part of it might be better from a specific perspective, not in the big picture. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:59 | comment | added | Kevin | Demonstrate how much more using git makes you (and the other teams) effective in doing your duties. Do not volunteer replacing ClearCase without hearing the case for it, but show where the day to day benefits are. ClearCase may be required for build auditing or project wide issue tracking which Github is not strong in. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:58 | comment | added | metacubed | @randomA of course, I do realize that! A well-integrated system makes life so much easier. That's why tool suites like Atlassian and TFS are so popular. When you add in product support, training, auditing, recruitment, etc., you have a pretty solid case - but for the exact opposite of what the question wants :P | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:55 | comment | added | InformedA | @metacubed you are thinking about a pieces by pieces solution. But I have been in a somewhat corporate environment for a while, it seems in business having a complete, integrated system of tools and solutions is very important. Clearcase might be part of the whole system, I don't know. This will get into the guessing area too much. But ask executives, they might in turn give you an even better argument of why they are doing what they are doing than just the 'it has been working' above. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:50 | comment | added | metacubed | @randomA Even using the old workhorse SVN is better than Clearcase, I think. And if enterprise versions are required, you can always use GitHub Enterprise or Microsoft TFS. Both feature Git and SVN bindings so devs are not affected. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:48 | comment | added | gnat | recommended reading: How do I explain ${something} to ${someone}? | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:42 | comment | added | InformedA | I think you are judging them if you think they're only interested in facts with dollar figures. And they might want terse explanations because verbose explanation can trick them into something they don't understand. The best approach is perhaps giving out a list of good things that Git has but ClearCase does not. Nevertheless, I feel corporate environment executives don't trust open source software especially if there is a well established enterprise version. | |
| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:37 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 6, 2014 at 4:32 | history | asked | Mike | CC BY-SA 3.0 |