> I haven’t used it personally, but I always heard that VSS was a complete train wreck.

It was, but then it was just a version control system. Back then version control wasn't as 'intrusive' into the whole development workflow as git is today. You interacted with version control exactly twice a day: once in the morning to get the latest state, and once in the evening to commit the day's work.

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mattmanser 9 hours ago | parent [-]

You’re forgetting the running around the office trying to find the guy who’d checked out the file you desperately needed to edit.

For you young’uns, old source control used to work like that. To edit a file, you checked it out, no-one else was allowed to edit it until you’d finished.

	▲	markus_zhang 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I read about that in Showstopper. David Cutler made a phone call to a developer who went to lunch without releasing the file he checked out. I do need to inspect the other big names of contemporary version control tools. Maybe they are more suitable for small teams or individuals.