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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Disc's without power
Date: Sat, 03 May 2025 11:51:34 -0700
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 14:38:01 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On 5/2/2025 2:05 PM, cyclintom wrote:
>> On Thu May 1 16:19:53 2025 Jeff Liebermann  wrote:
>>> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:16:53 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That is as bad as you telling me that Garmin hadn't updated their software after I got a notification to update it, did so, and there was a major change in the average speed which showed a 2 mph increase in average speed. It was your contention that if the version number didn't change, the software didn't change.
>>>
>>> Garmin could not have released two versions of the same software with
>>> identical version numbers.  That's because whatever their programmers
>>> used for version control would certainly not have allowed anyone to do
>>> it.
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_version-control_software>
>>> Patching code or executables outside of the version control system may
>>> have been common practice in the days when you were a programmer, but
>>> doing so today is unlikely.

>> Tell everyone here how many commercial programs you've written. 

Tom, how would my ability to write commercial software have any effect
on your inability to understand even the basics of version control
software?  I could be a great or a horrible programmer, and you would
still would not know the first thing about version control software.  

>The program application is irrelevant to the revision control process. 
>If you were ever a real software engineer you would know that.

Agreed.  In 2019, I was asked to help write or edit a technical book.
In the past, I edited one SCO Unix books and this seemed like more of
the same.  When I received my instructions, the first step was to
install and familiarize myself with how Git works.  They were using
Git for organizing a book, which might have a dozen authors and
possibly a similar number of editors.  Using version control for
writing a book seems to be quite common:
<https://www.google.com/search?q=using%20git%20to%20write%20a%20book>
For example:
<https://opensource.com/article/19/4/write-git>
Fortunately, I declined the invitation, mostly because I was
recovering from laser lithotripsy surgery at the time.

>> And then tell us what Garmin could and could not do.
>
>It's basic code development configuration management. If you were ever a 
>real software engineer you would know that.

Yep.  

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