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monitron | 3 months ago

> the OG tool `git`

This phrase immediately turned the rest of my hair gray. I'm old enough to still think of Git as the "new" version control system, having survived CVS and Subversion before it.

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c0brac0bra|3 months ago

But did you survive rcs?

0x20cowboy|3 months ago

Or visual source safe

kragen|3 months ago

Worse: PVCS!

smcameron|3 months ago

and sccs

rco8786|3 months ago

I still remember dragging my team kicking and screaming away from Subversion. Which, to be fair, was fine. I think GitHub’s rise was really what won it for git vs subversion. The others though, good riddance.