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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git
Initial release 7 April 2005; 20 years ago
Oh oh
There was sccs (1973) and cvs (1986) before git.
Yeah but you merged as you wanted, usually anyway.
Oh merging was a total crap shoot with sccs. It was better with cvs, until it wasn't and then it was very very bad.