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		oblio on Nov 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Questions with Vim’s Creator, Bram Moolenaar More likely a file server somewhere, email and patches. After all Linux didn't use a SCM until quite late.

the_why_of_y on Nov 20, 2014 [–]

That's because Linus had the fairly unique position that CVS et al. are actually worse than not using a SCM at all.

The BSDs have been using CVS for a long time so it's plausible they used something like RCS or SCCS before CVS was available.

FreeBSD repo goes back to 1993: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=2

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