Comment by zeroq

3 hours ago

tangent

Once I've tried one SCM to track every single change to my files, and the other for bulk commits. The result was quite satisfying.

It was some 15 years ago, we just switched from CVS to SVN and everyone thought it was the end of the history, at least for SCMs. Main branch was called master, and we were locking files by simply telling our teammates not to touch them.

At one time I decided I really missed the Eclipse feature which was tracking all local changes to the files, even without an active SCM. Making tiny commits was not an option, because I want it to track every file save, and we haven't yet figured out working with branches.

So I decided to install mercurial and made a hook which made a dummy commit every time I saved a file. Everything mercurial related was ignored by SVN.

Suddenly I was able to teleport myself to a version from before the lunch while SVN history was crystal clear.