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Discussion on: How did software teams handle version control before version control tools? Did distributed development exist back then?

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We used to post floppy disks with source code on them back and forth in the 80s - version control was 'open the files side-by-side and see what might have changed' ;-) Luckily in those days it tended to be one long huge file so it was easy to spot ;-)