Right before git made it big, I got so fed up with SVN I decided to build my own. It was UI based, hit a button and it would make a zip of just the files that

Right before git made it big, I got so fed up with SVN I decided to build my own. It was UI based, hit a button and it would make a zip of just the files that had changed, along side an xml manifest of all files, their hash, permissions and metadata. Every so many commits it would make a full backup. Worked really well, even built a visual difftool and history explorer - IMHO nicer than most git UIs these days. No mechanism for branches or working with other devs but it worked really well for a small team working on a shared SMB server in 2007. Thought about trying to commercialize it but git took off and I fell in love. Wrote a tool that converted that history to git and never looked back.