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by bronsoja 4505 days ago
I'm assuming there was at least some scm in place before, but my few google searches haven't turned up what it was. Do you know?

*edit: Didn't look hard enough, according to this: http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-A-Short-History-o... it was just files and patches from 1991-2002. Seems crazy from a modern perspective...
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sp332 4505 days ago
Yeah, check this out from 1998 (two years before OP) https://lkml.org/lkml/1998/9/30/122
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cshimmin 4505 days ago
Wait is this where the original idea for git came from?
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sp332 4504 days ago
Larry McVoy was the BitKeeper guy. This was early in terms of distributed version control, but I have no idea if it was the first or just (for a while) the most popular. Linus wrote git using several lessons he learned from using BitKeeper. It's not just a copy, though.
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