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History of Unix/Linux VCSs (cont)

Mid 2000's ... peer-to-peer style systems
  • e.g. Bitkeeper, Git (Linux kernel), darcs (Haskell!), ...
  • multiple repositories, no "master"
  • external revisions imported as new branches
  • flexible handling of branching
  • various auto-merging algorithms (experimentation)