git was invented before continuous delivery Maybe before the word was invented, we just called it "developing in the production environment" before "continous

git was invented before continuous delivery Maybe before the word was invented, we just called it "developing in the production environment" before "continous delivery" was trendy. (And yes, we used the derisive name even if it took a couple spins on a developer workstation before getting rushed to prod.) releasing often from one stable master branch Subversion has serverside hooks. It was common to use them to push trunk to production after checkins. I know this because I was there writing some of those scripts.