Git History

A brief history of version control:

SCCS (Source Code Control System), 1972, closed source, free with UNIX

RCS (Revision Control System), 1982, open source

CVS (Concurrent Version System), 1986–1990, allow remote repo

SVN (Apache Subversion), 2000, watching changes in a directory, not just individual file, snapshot of directory (track remove files, rename files)

BitKeeper (SCM), 2000, closed source, proprietary, distributed version control, used for source code of the linux kernel from 2002–2005, “free” community version. April 2005, the community version not free anymore

Git, 2005, Created by Linus Torvalds, replacement for BitKeeper to manage Linux Kernel source code