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> lightyears ahead of the pre-Git (pre-Mercurial? I'm not sure which came first) client-server VCSes git and mercurial both came out at the same time, April 20
by jjav 6y ago
> lightyears ahead of the pre-Git (pre-Mercurial? I'm not sure which came first) client-server VCSes
git and mercurial both came out at the same time, April 2005.
But neither was the first distributed scs by a very long shot. There was of course bitkeeper (which motivated git) and Sun's teamware was there all of the 90s. Surely several others.
- fanf2 6y agoThere was GNU arch / tla https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_arch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_arch and monotone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone_(software)