As the open source git distributed version-control system celebrates its 15-year anniversary next week, it is hard for us to remember that developers used to rely on other types of version control systems. Let’s take a brief stroll down memory lane from git’s early days, to its tipping point and now its consolidation phase.
According to a 2007 survey of git users, 80% had experience using Subversion (SVN) and 69% had used CVS (concurrent versions system). These early fans of git were still the minority of developers. In 2009, a survey of the Eclipse community, which originated from a Java IDE (independent development environment), SVN was the primary source code management system for 58% of respondents, while only 2% used Git or GitHub. After this point, git continued to gain strength.
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