Exactly. When people say 'before we had version control' I want to ask, how old are you? And by the way, I am older than just about all of you.
Started with SCCS with versioned control lists to determine what got pulled from SCCS. The outer wrapper was all written in shell. 1980s.
Talking about a large system, eight or ten sub projects, each sub project in its own versioned source tree.
A release spec pulled the SCCS deltas of all the sub project control lists, and then SCCS was directed by those versioned control lists to pull all the source code for each sub project.
So yes, version control that I am aware of was firmly entrenched in 1980. And I am certain it goes back further than that.
Started with SCCS with versioned control lists to determine what got pulled from SCCS. The outer wrapper was all written in shell. 1980s.
Talking about a large system, eight or ten sub projects, each sub project in its own versioned source tree.
A release spec pulled the SCCS deltas of all the sub project control lists, and then SCCS was directed by those versioned control lists to pull all the source code for each sub project.
So yes, version control that I am aware of was firmly entrenched in 1980. And I am certain it goes back further than that.