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Discussion on: How did people develop software before git or version control?

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Roberto Maurizzi • Edited

While, as many are saying, there were other source code management systems before git, they weren't widespread and, at least where I'm from they were considered a waste of time...
Of course developing in a team was an ugly mess, but the tendency was to split work in folders/be more modular, and make a lot of backups (more than once a day) so you could get to older versions of your code in case of serious problems.
Git especially (since branching is extremely cheap) improved things hugely: first time I used it after a few years on subversion it was like having superpowers 😂