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Git, invented in 2005. Programmers on 2004: (lemmy.eco.br)
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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 32 points 3 months ago (9 children)

CVS was, for the longest time, the only player in the FLOSS world. It was bad, but so were commercial offerings, and it was better than RCS.

It's been completely supplanted by SVN, specifically written to be CVS but not broken, which is about exactly as old as git. If you find yourself using git lfs, you might want to have a look at SVN.

Somewhat ironically RCS is still maintained, last patch a mere 19 months ago to this... CVS repo. Dammit I did say "completely supplanted" already didn't I. Didn't consider the sheer pig-headedness of the openbsd devs.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

which is about exactly as old as git.

Wdym by that?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Both git and svn started around the same time, in or about 2004.

[–] theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

Svn: 20 October 2000

Git: 7 April 2005

I remember using svn when git development was started

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