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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
Like the robot itself, the control software is a one-off thing with a very limited lifetime.
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Perhaps that's the difference in our approaches. We attempt to re-use software as much as possible from one year to the next, so we don't consider our software to have a very limited lifetime.
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Until then, however, I really don't think there's anything a CVS "check in" provides that a drag-and-drop "copy and rename" of the lone software folder doesn't give us.
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I agree. Like I said, you can accomplish the same things with your copy method. We just prefer the convenience and ease-of-use from a version control system.
Along these lines, another thing that I'd like to accomplish is introducing our software students to some of the basic concepts of version control. Personally when I started my job I didn't know what version control was, and needed to learn it really quick. Any exposure that students get to it will be useful if they end up pursuing software engineering.