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How does Git differ? - Git Tutorial
From the course: Git for System Administration
How does Git differ?
- [Instructor] To understand how Git differs from other types of version control systems we need to look into what came before it. In 1982 RCS, or Revision Control System, was released. RCS was the first widely used, cross-platform version control system. In RCS the recent file is stored, and if you wanted a previous version you'd apply patches to go back to it. This was efficient and fast, as going back to previous versions was not a common task. RCS was still fairly simple in that it tracked single files and not directories of files, or projects of files. It also did not support binary files. RCS stored files on the local drive. It was good for single developers just needing version control on their own files. In the late 1980s CVS, or Concurrent Version System, was created. One of the major differences with CVS over RCS was it allowed concurrent versions, or rather multiple people working on the same files at the same time. This was because it stored the files in a CVS repository…
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