Dec. 18th, 2011
In 1994, I started working for a small software company. Source control was a structured network share until I started moving projects into Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, which was slow and balky and feature-poor, but it was better than manual merging.
Until it corrupted its own database, losing our entire history. Luckily, we were able to piece together the repository from local workspaces. But the search was on to find a replacement.
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