Well, the plot thickens. Apparently my manager and I miscommunicated, because she is not meeting with the business partner. Rather she and I are going to meet with the company’s CIO and CTO to determine a course of action. Wheeee!

So I looked into version control some more and this is what I found:

The binary that was released into production was first checked in BEFORE the source code was labeled. Other changes were checked in AFTER the binary was initially checked in, changes that are not in the release. The question is whether we can assume that everything in version control as of the point the binary was checked in is correct. Sounds like a dangerous assumption to me.

I thought version control was a relatively simple concept. Apparently I was wrong.