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Re:History of version control - 10 astonishments by wglb on Saturday December 17, 2011 @12:36PM (#3364629)
I used SourceSafe for the better part of 10 years. The underpinning technology very much resembled RCS.

But all-in-all, it was quite serviceable for a 75,000 line C++ project. Just don't try to do branches.

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Re:History of version control - 10 astonishments by tikhonj on Sunday December 18, 2011 @08:12AM (#3366566)
That's a little bit like saying "All-in-all, this car is quite serviceable. Just don't try to use third gear."
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Re:History of version control - 10 astonishments by wglb on Friday December 23, 2011 @07:19PM (#3387701)
Well, that made me chuckle, and I can't disagree. But to the other comment's post, it never lost anything for us.

Thank goodness we didn't need to do any branching.

So perhaps we can think of RCS as first gear, VS as second gear, CVS/SVN as third gear, and git as fourth gear?

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