The Daily WTF

When the pandemic started, a lot of companies needed to cut back, and Initech was no exception. In the Before Times™, Initech had an offshore development team that maintained an application inherited from an acquisition. Now that everyone was tightening their belts, though, that had to go. The offshore team was released and the application they supported ended up in the hands of Lovelace.

Lovelace dug in, and they quickly discovered a few things. From 2010-2017, the application’s idea of source control was a folder on an FTP server and a lot of files named some_module.php.old and some_module.php.donotuse. In 2017, someone put the project into Git, but the commits were just point-in-time snapshots of the FTP folder. Deployment? Just work right on that FTP folder, it’s fine. And if you forget to commit those changes back to source control? No biggie- consider the FTP folder the source of truth.

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