How to convince people to use revision control

[Alex Esplin]

On 5/1/07, Nicholas Leippe <nick at leippe.com> wrote:
> You might try forcing an 'exercise' on him in which lack of revision control
> will become the obvious loser.  (Ask to remove/undo some small change from a
> few weeks ago or something, or ask him to figure out exactly when some change
> went in--you can trump up a reason such as a client has a billing dispute
> regarding the bug/feature and accounting needs to know whether it's valid or
> not.)

Or you could get your boss to drum up some similar task for the both
of you and destroy him in it by reaping the benefits of your diligent
source control usage, then point out that source control was the
reason for the destruction.

Or you could crack into his computer and take over the little enforced
typing rest daemon and have it flash a message to him to commit his
changes instead of locking the screen for an eye/wrist break.

Or you could use the Force to control his mind.  I think that would be
the coolest solution, myself.

-- 
Alex Esplin