It only takes doing index73.php and index_old3.php for a few months and then eventually screwing up (unless you’re perfect) to realize how dumb putting numbers and _old4 at the end of names is. Then at that point, you naturally go look if there’s a better way.
> Then at that point, you naturally go look if there’s a better way.
That might be true now but it wasn’t always. Plenty of shops didn’t have any version control at all. And the build was whatever came off your local dev box. And “local dev box” wasn’t even a term…
It only takes doing index73.php and index_old3.php for a few months and then eventually screwing up (unless you’re perfect) to realize how dumb putting numbers and _old4 at the end of names is. Then at that point, you naturally go look if there’s a better way.