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A practitioner's history of source control: From CVS to Git and thirty years of version control

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…

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