From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control, lived from inside
In April 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote Git in ten days because BitKeeper revoked its free licence to the Linux kernel. Twenty-one years later, no successor has emerged. A practitioner's history of source control from someone who used every major system since 1990, and lost code in most of them.
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// contents The pre-VCS era, what we did before formal version control existed The lock-based era, SCCS and RCS CVS, concurrent edits, server-based, badly Visual SourceSafe, the parallel commercial track Subversion, "CVS done right" April 2005, the month version control changed forever GitHub, the platform that made Git the default Git in 2026, what won, what didn't, what's next The practitioner arc, what each system cost, what Git gave back Closing // reading 0% · ~10 min remaining 0x07│ 2026.04.28│ 10 min read │ git · version-control · source-control · cvs · subversion · sourcesafe · history · programming · dvcs · github · opinion │ history (v1) From CVS to Git, thirty years of source control, lived from inside In April 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote Git in ten days because…
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