Comment by adharmad
10 years ago
Thank you for contributing to the development and evangalizing of DVCS, directly (BK) and indirectly (the ideas and inspiration for git, hg).
10 years ago
Thank you for contributing to the development and evangalizing of DVCS, directly (BK) and indirectly (the ideas and inspiration for git, hg).
It's probably fair to say the DVCS accelerated the growth of the entire software industry.
Was BitKeeper the first version control system to "think distributed" ?
Sun's TeamWare [1] was probably the first real distributed version control system. It worked on top of SCCS. Larry McBoy, BitKeeper's creator, was involved in its development. I believe BitKeeper also uses parts of SCCS internally.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_WorkShop_TeamWare
We did a clean room reimplementation of SCCS and added a pile of extensions.
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NSE begat NSE-lite begat TeamWare begat BK begat git. Or so says Cantrill.
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There was a paper published on a DVCS using UUCP (!) in 1980: "A distributed version control system for wide area networks " B O Donovan, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=tru...
The date of publication on Xplore is September 1990 though?
> Thank you for contributing to the development and evangalizing of DVCS, directly (BK) and indirectly (the ideas and inspiration for git, hg).
I concur.