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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago (11 children)

The weird part is that most modern office software has version control built right in.

And I still do this with all my files anyway.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Use date/time in your file name,using GMT:

Metrics of Sales 2024-05-22_14-29.docx

Very unlikely to have 2 docs with the same down-to-the-minute time stamp in the name.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If you think this process involves enough mindpower to check the time, let alone figure out where the dashes are in whatever language keyboard setup I'm using at the time, you are wildly overestimating how much care goes into doing this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, if you can't be bothered to ensure file names mean something, then you get to enjoy the results.

In the Real World®, sometimes files get shared and traded around, and conversations happen about them, and you need to be able to quickly verify you're looking at the same doc.

We can't all be connected to the same version control system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Well, if you can't be bothered to ensure file names mean something, then you get to enjoy the results.

Now you're getting it.

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