[mvc]

> there’s a whole generation of young engineers who don’t know how short their end of the stick actually is

I'm from a generation who had to use VSS for a few years. The sticks are pretty long these days, even the ones you get from github.

[ChrisMarshallNY]

> VSS

I just had trauma!

I will say that SourceSafe had one advantage: You could create "composite" proxy workspaces.

You could add one or two files from one workspace, and a few from another, etc. The resulting "avatar" workspace would act like they were all in the same workspace. It was cool.

However, absolutely everything else sucked.

I don't miss it.

[gcr]

So it’s a workspace that includes changes from multiple branches at once, like `jj new revset-1 revset-2 revset-3 …` ?

(Git has octopus merges, jj just calls them “merge commits” even though they may have more than two parents)