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unusual facts about revision control



BRL-CAD

The BRL-CAD source code repository is believed to be the oldest public version-controlled codebase in the world that's still under active development, dating back to 1983-12-16 00:10:31 UTC.

Walter F. Tichy

To the larger software development community he is mostly known as the initial developer of the RCS revision control system.


see also

GNU arch

To simulate the behavior of centralized revision control systems, the head developer could allow shell access (SSH) or write access (FTP, SFTP, WebDAV) to a server, allowing authorized users to commit to a central server.

Source Code Control System

However, its file format is still used internally by a few other revision control programs, including BitKeeper and TeamWare.