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20 years ago, at least in my circles, it was ubiquitous. Because we did it manually, no one had the time to linearly search out a regression. (BTW sccs was 197
by 48864w6ui 3y ago
20 years ago, at least in my circles, it was ubiquitous. Because we did it manually, no one had the time to linearly search out a regression.
(BTW sccs was 1972; no doubt it had predecessors. Before disks were large enough to hold multiple versions of a source tree we kept them on tape)
- The_Colonel 3y ago> 20 years ago, at least in my circles, it was ubiquitous. In my circles, it's not ubiquitous even today. > BTW sccs was 1972 Many projects didn't use a reasonable versioning system until 10 or 20 years ago. Before decentralized versioning system, this technique was highly impractical - in one SVN project I worked on, checkout of a branch / revision took ~30 minutes. CVS tracks commit on individual file basis, checking a global state of the project at a particular timestamp wasn't that trivial / necessarily correct.