Throwback time! Calling all coding veterans: Where did you stash your code before cloud repositories? 🤔
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@nixCraft What do you mean "before cloud repositories"... like before there was the internet at all? The cloud is just a word for "something on the internet", you have to go back quite a ways before repos were hosted on the internet.
In general its GIT now, before that it was SVN, before that it was CVS. Around the CVS time and a little before you had stuff like "Visual source safe" which is likely the only source code repository people really used without the internet getting involved, that was local and i think remote was an option too. Before that we really didnt do versioned repos, it was just plain old files.
@falken Before that we had SCCS and then RCS. These dealt with one file at a time. The innovation with CVS was managing the history of an entire project as a whole.
IMO, GIT is still the sine qua non of version control. (Despite the learning curve.) I did try using some of the competition. The closest competitor IMO was BZR.
Totally forgot about that, also I dont think I ever used it. But now that you mentioned it I do recall hearing about it before.
@freemo @nixCraft CVS was released in 1990 about 5 years before I got online, so literally "never" lol