On Tuesday 01 May 2007, Dave Smith wrote: > I am a huge fan of revision control for software development. Until > recently, I thought every one else was too. For the past couple years, > I've been working with someone who begrudgingly uses CVS and Subversion > and only commits about once a month (on good months). The ill effects of > such a practice seem obvious to me, though I have a hard time voicing > them to my co-worker. To date, my attempts at convincing him to do at > least daily commits have fallen on deaf ears. He claims that his manual > backups are sufficient, and that for a one-man project it doesn't really > matter. Can you give me any suggestions on how I can convince him to > join the rest of the civilized world and use revision control daily, > without being a jerk and going over his head? > > Thanks in advance!
You might try forcing an 'exercise' on him in which lack of revision control will become the obvious loser. (Ask to remove/undo some small change from a few weeks ago or something, or ask him to figure out exactly when some change went in--you can trump up a reason such as a client has a billing dispute regarding the bug/feature and accounting needs to know whether it's valid or not.) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
