[kps]

It's really about the assumption that the past was like the present, only older. Unix didn't have version control when `file(1)` was written, unless you count last week's backup tapes. (Granted, ‘backup tapes with fancy labels’ is also the working model of git.)

[genewitch]

right, but if i take some vb6 thing i wrote and update it for .net or .ts or whatever, but i also upload the original vb6 project/file(s) into git as well, that satisfies the meaning of the sentence. we could probably think of a better way to say it as concisely, but, as i said, i just parsed it differently.