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early days before git's invention

From
Zhi Li <lizhi1215@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 8, 2009, 12:23 UTC
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<2986b3940911080423p4ccfe279ia00c995e1ea23fb9@mail.gmail.com>
Hello list,

I have a question maybe not suitable to be put on this list. I'm just curious on git and Linux history. As what was said on wiki, Linux kernel was maintained by BitKeeper, then for some reason, BitKeeper can not be used, so git was invented. My question is what was used before BitKeeper, CVS? I don't think so. Then, just using file to manage?

Zhi
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