[tra3]

Is it this Tom Lord: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ ?

It was my first introduction to proper branching/merging support, vs RCS and CVS at the time.

[pcdavid]

Yes apparently: https://lwn.net/Articles/901807/

[trelane]

TLA was one of my first too, if not the first foray outside CVS.

[0xdky]

I worked on a POC porting it to Windows and had to port GNU tar to support large file names. TLA was truly revolutionary!

[emmelaich]

Similarly, I managed a Solaris build of arch for a while. arch/larch/arx/tla/baz was pretty cool. But Tom was in denial about its short comings. Particularly speed.

[alexott]

Unfortunately yes. That was interesting system before git…