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tikhonj on Dec 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: History of version control - 10 astonishments

That's a little bit like saying "All-in-all, this car is quite serviceable. Just don't try to use third gear."

wglb on Dec 24, 2011 [–]

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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