Poof!

[billroper]

Well, it looks like the version control system gleefully lied when it told me that I had checked in all of my changes. Some fraction of three days of work is now gone.

My mood: priceless.

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[autographedcat.livejournal.com]

Ouch. That's awful. :/

[madfilkentist]

Screaming loudly is generally permitted under such circumstances. I would. Even if it wasn't permitted.

[poltr1]

They say profanity is every programmer's second language. Now would be the time I'd resort to it. :)

[kestrels-nest.livejournal.com]

AAARRGH!

I hate it when that happens.

[catalana.livejournal.com]

"God likes a language with its own four-letter name..."

(Rewrite as appropriate.)

*hug*

[birder2.livejournal.com]

Um--aren't YOU the one who wrote a song about back-ups? ("Haven't done a backup since the project's begun")

[maiac.livejournal.com]

Aaaaagghhhhh!!!!!

(Which version control system?)

[mdlbear]

AARG! Inquiring minds want need to know.

It was the sudden loss of a hard drive containing both the CVS repository and the source for a (completed, fortunately) project that finally got me off my arse (aside -- why doesn't Firefox's spell checker recognize "arse") and making my own backups on an external USB drive at work.

[billroper]

Yes, I did. And I had just backed everything up by checking it into the version control system. However, the system lied, which is egregious cheating.

[billroper]

ClearCase. In this case Remote ClearCase, since I'm no longer sitting close enough to the VOB server to make the regular version of ClearCase an option.

[billroper]

Remote ClearCase.

I have concluded that ClearCase has to be the chattiest version control system known to man.

"Hey, how ya doin'?"

"Doin' great! How about you?"

"Not too bad. Got a file I'd like to check in."

"Really? Are you sure?"

"Pretty sure. Let me check."

"Ok, cool, I'll wait."

"Yeah, that's a file all right."

"Are you sure it's a file?"

"Hang on, I'll check again..."