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Psythik@lemmy.world 10 hours agoOkay, so the answer basically is that you can’t have multiple people working on overlapping bits of code, not without someone sorting it out first.
elephantium@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah, it’s fairly clever but not actually magical. Sometimes you have to go in and take a look.
Actually, the real magic is that it works out mostly ok most of the time. Much better than older systems where you would have to “check out” a file to work on it which would lock others out. I’ve heard older programmers talk about needing to go find someone who had a file checked out and have them check it back in to enable them to do some work.