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Don't forget Visual Sourcesafe, that came out around 1995 as well and was the standard source control package for most of the Windows shops in the 90s and even up to the mid 2000s (at least in my experience)



Until about 2014 or so in my department, when we started using SVN. We were more concerned about file locking and a "single version of the truth" of MS Word files stored centrally but accessed locally than we were of fine-grained version control, and Git didn't have the kind of file locking we needed (as I understood it).




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