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Re:Discussion of Vim and Its Implementation by ryanf on Thursday June 02, 2011 @01:31PM (#2612971)
It's interesting that in 2002 he wasn't using any revision control at all. Was that common for open source projects at the time?
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Re:Discussion of Vim and Its Implementation by olauzon on Thursday June 02, 2011 @02:04PM (#2613146)
Linux kernel development was managed with tarballs and patches for the first 10 years, until BitKeeper was selected in 2002, then of course Git in 2005.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Revision_control Also see Linus Torvalds' Google Tech Talk on Git starting around 2:45 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

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