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Ben is Vice President of Mobile Engineering at Walmart.com, where he works closely with his long-time friend Dion Almaer.

you add some files to a directory, and type svn commit, nothing happens, and you have no idea why nothing happened.

Ten minutes and several Google searches later, you’re still stumped, until finally you remember… ah yes, svn add ..., then svn commit.

I haven’t had to think about that step for a long, long time. Maybe I need to start using the command-line a bit more…

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  1. September 13, 2006

    ‘svn status’ is great for WTF moments.

    Yes, you are too spoiled by your IDE.

  2. October 23, 2006

    Those are the days when you’re really glad someone invented TortoiseSVN.

    Now if only they would create a Mac OS X version…

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