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Ten Years Ago, I Was Afraid Of The Powershell Terminal. Today, I Still Use Win Rar For Version Control Because The Reactions I Get From Normal Programmers When They Ask About My Git Automations Never Get Old 🫡

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Ten Years Ago, I Was Afraid Of The Powershell Terminal. Today, I Still Use Win Rar For Version Control Because The Reactions I Get From Normal Programmers When They Ask About My Git Automations Never Get Old 🫡

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Imagine proudly showing your girlfriend your folder full of WinRAR archives labeled "project_final.rar", "project_final_FINAL.rar", "project_final_FINAL_v2.rar", and "project_actually_final_i_swear.rar" while she thinks you're some kind of version control wizard. Meanwhile, Git users are having an existential crisis trying to figure out if you're trolling or genuinely living in 2005.

The real power move here is the sheer confidence of rejecting modern version control systems in favor of manually compressing folders like it's still the era of floppy disks. While your teammates are doing git rebase -i HEAD~5, you're literally right-clicking and selecting "Add to archive" like some kind of digital caveman. The fact that someone finds this attractive is the real plot twist.

Bonus points for the file naming convention visible in the screenshot - nothing says "professional developer" quite like "LusterBlack phase 04duo5 - Initial" followed by "LusterBlack phase 04duo6 - Refining mov..." It's like watching someone reinvent Git's commit history but worse in every possible way.

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