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Probably RCS http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/; http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/; It's a fact that it used CVS, then SVN at some point (see https://gcc.gnu.org/v

by iajrz 12y ago

Probably RCS http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/; http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/; It's a fact that it used CVS, then SVN at some point (see https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/branches/CYGNUS/ https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/branches/CYGNUS/, a branch created by cvs2svn, a migration tool) EDIT: Apparently all previous history was lost when they implemented CVS, circa 1997. We could always ask someone in the oldest maintainers file available (https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/trunk/MAINTAINERS?revision=17481&view=markup&pathrev=17568 https://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs/gcc/trunk/MAINTAINERS?revision=1...) and have the real answer.

DannyBee 12y ago
Your last part is not correct. We had the "old-gcc" RCS files, it just was in a format not parseable by CVS. It was not entirely lost, just not easily accessible. Ian Taylor went to the trouble of rewriting the RCS files CVS had, and that we based the SVN repository on, to include the old data, so actually, SVN had more history than the CVS versions, dating back to 1987.