Distributed Version Control is here to stay, baby (2010)

by zevebon 8/19/22, 12:33 PMwith 2 comments
by zevebon 8/19/22, 12:42 PM

> I know, it’s strange… since 1972 everyone was thinking that we were manipulating versions, but, it turned out, surprisingly, that thinking about the changes themselves as first class solved a very important problem: the problem of merging branched code.

This is a very good point, and it really was revolutionary.