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by ajb 810 days ago
Yup, Linux was just patches and a sequence of tarballs.

Another weird one is a distributed version control system over UUCP [1]. Although not distributed in the modern sense

[1] O'Donovan, Brian, and Jane B. Grimson. "A distributed version control system for wide area networks." Software Engineering Journal 5.5 (1990): 255-262.