Version Chaos

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The Daily WTF

Today’s submitter, Erica, writes: Every time I tell this story to other developers they don’t believe it, because this is quite possibly the dumbest way version control has ever been done.

When Erica joined Initech’s mobile team, she came in as a mid-level developer on a team with one senior (Steve) and two interns (Dan and Trevor). Steve wasn’t dedicated to the project; in fact, he was 80% on a more important team, so he barely had time for leading the mobile team. It fell to the project manager (Benjamin) to be the technical lead on the project as well as managing the interns. To be fair, this project was mostly meant as a training exercise, something low priority and safe for interns to cut their teeth on. So far, so good.

The app was for Android, and they were using the Flutter SDK, which was at the time

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