[fpc-other] Git & SVN

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On 2017-05-23 15:36, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote:
>> > At work, I don't even push against master, but I do a pull request
>> > against my own repository, and ask one of my senior colleagues to
>> > review... I don't know about you, but to me this sounds a lot more
>> > like teamwork, than going around beating up people "for wrongdoing"
>> > with a cluestick.
>> 
>> Then you don't understand what I mean. In the job you go see the 
>> person,
>> work something out, and problem sorted in a few minutes. The odd
>> impossible person is usually swiftly dealt with.

> 
> Honestly, I can't even... You sound like the Expert Beginner Twitter
> account. No personal offense intended, but you just do.
> 

He's talking about Army of Programmers in a Building, an article I wrote 
years ago ;-)

Sometimes it's better to just walk over and talk to a real programmer in 
a real building than it is to send some email over the christmas 
holidays and wait 2 weeks for a reply for him to commit his changes.. 
since he's in Barbados or Cuba on vacation.

With Army of Programmers in a Building you can just go and knock on his 
door, or his cubicle, instead of this pathetic thing called Email.

The disadvantage of working in the same town/building as someone, 
though, is that they may always be bothering you non stop and tapping on 
your shoulder, but not really since programmers aren't that obnoxious, 
AFAIK

This development on the internet across multiple countries has some 
massive disadvantages to something like the Microsoft Campus where you 
can go over and knock on the guys door, or at Borland (although, they 
are hiring people offshore AFAIK now)

And sometimes typing out a long email takes time, instead of just being 
able to speak in real time to a real person - an email is like a fixed 
essay, whereas a conversation is in real time, instant. They have IRC 
for this, I guess, but that becomes addictive and wastes lots of time, 
IMO, and you don't get as much work done if you are chit chatting 
nonstop on irc/icq/message systems