Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by dboreham on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:18AM
(#19430072)
RCS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_Control_System then
SSCS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code_Control_System
before 1972 I'm not sure..
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Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by mcv on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @08:44AM
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I assumed this history was meticulously reconstructed with a lot of hard work, but apparently Unix was one of the first systems maintained in SCCS.
I guess the part from before SCCS was still meticulously reconstructed?
Re:Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today
by dboreham on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:53PM
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Poking around a bit in the repo, I think the history prior to SCCS is just release snapshots. e.g. there is no history for the cat command in the PDP-7 Unix : https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/Rese...