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kettleballroll | 1 year ago

Same. I miss the old times when people tried naming their projects sensibly. I mean, we're constantly telling ourselves how variable and function names should speak for themselves, but then we name our projects using random, completely non-descript names. It's a annoying.

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chronial|1 year ago

Which old times are you referring to / what are "sensible" names?

I thought about it and I don't know what a better name would be. Off the top of my Head, I know Perforce, BitWarden, Subversion, fossil and git. And then the abbreviations CVS, RCS and SVN.

Do any of these qualify as a descriptive name?

itohihiyt|1 year ago

As a British national I like to think git is a very descriptive name, because git is a git to use and understand.

kettleballroll|1 year ago

I don't just mean version control systems, but since you mentioned them: CVS (concurrent version system), rcs (revision control system) and subversion all seem fairly descriptive to me?

phrenq|1 year ago

At one point in my career, I used Microsoft SourceSafe, which is a pretty descriptive name. Seems like the exception here, though.

softjobs|1 year ago

You probably mean BitKeeper. BitWarden is a password / secrets manager.