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Don't forget CVS, released in 1990. It was popular for about a decade before Subversion took over.

• nine_k 2y ago
  Did it run under DOS? I'm not even asking about a win16 native GUI client. (You can still enjoy CVS if you want to contribute to OpenBSD, for instance.)
  • icedchai 2y ago
    I'm not sure. In the mid-90's, I worked at a Solaris and NT shop, which was where I first used it.
  • mike_hearn 2y ago
    Yes, and for Win95 users there was actually a very nice GUI plugin to explorer called TortoiseCVS. The funny thing about CVS and Subversion is that they were last version control systems that non-programmers could actually use. TortoiseCVS/TortoiseSVN were easy enough that with a lot of training you could get technical writers or artists to use it too. Valuable for game projects. With git, forget about it. It can't even handle binary files well.
    • bsder 2y ago
      Mercurial and TortoiseHg were fine, too. Only Git had the brain damage to take the source control idea of "there are two areas: working or committed" and add the dumbass index/staging/stash areas that confuse the hell out of everything.