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Source code management
Raised as a usability problem by 8 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 8 threads.
People raised many different problems with Source code management, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 8 complaints
- Each version control system is over-engineered and painful to learn, forcing relearning2026-04-29
- Reviewers spend about five minutes per line just to understand code2022-03-23
- Hard to find code when it is scattered across many small files2020-10-25
- Recovering revision history from old source control needs manual reading or googling for 20 minutes2020-04-07
- Developers can't create their own branches and must wait weeks for IT approval2019-09-13
- Hidden checkboxes cause bad outcomes, so users must be warned to avoid them2018-04-10
- Source is so messy it is hard to navigate and needs many clicks2016-07-26
- Merging, resolving conflicts and tracking changes across branches is painful and error-prone2011-02-01