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Ask HN: How did the pros manage source code decades ago before modern SCM?
Always wondered how, in the days before SVN and Git and others, like in the 1970s - 1990s, during that enormous golden age of office software, video game software, etc, how were developers managing source code changes and versioning? I started hobbying at the tail end of that era and just used different copies of files in different folders for "versioning" so I could "revert" by going back to a different folder copy.
- mpchlets 8y ago70's SCSS - Bell Labs, first source control, single user 80's RCS (single user) and then CVS (multiple users) 90's CVS and then Perforce I don't know, this is from my memory, google can fill in the gaps.
- sdesol 8y agoThe 90's also had ClearCase, which is quite revolutionary for its time and I guess it still is. It was a beast to maintain and IBM was making a killing in annual license fee (~3000 per license)