When people answer questions with “why?”
InternetI was searching for Subversion web frontends and found this StackOverflow answer. Some of the comments were exactly what you’d expect.
Why the hell would you like to check in/check out files through a web interface (if I understand well your question)?
Why the hell indeed! Fire and brimstone and a use case I don’t have sufficient empathy to understand!
It sounds like could use any regular VCS (judging by your edit) - why does it have to be web-based? Why do you want to check files in/out via the web?
Oh for Pete’s sake. Merlin Mann responds with such questions by asking why he’s not a potted fern; I think we should all adopt that.
Update: Turns out, I wrote about this back in 2013.
