https://www.libcom.de/en/tags/version-control/ Recent content in Version Control on libcom.de Hugo en-GB Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/git-the-discipline-that-stays/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.libcom.de/en/blog/git-the-discipline-that-stays/ <p>I remember an evening, long before Git shaped my work.</p> <p>A configuration directory. Dozens of files, each with a suffix meant to reveal when it was last touched: <code>sysctl.conf.bak</code>, <code>sysctl.conf.old</code>, <code>sysctl.conf.2021</code>, <code>sysctl.conf.final</code>, <code>sysctl.conf.REALLY_final</code>. Nobody knew anymore which version held. Nobody knew who changed what, or when. And the question of <em>why</em> a particular line sat where it sat — that was answered, at best, by a comment somebody left sometime. Mostly, nobody answered.</p>