Tootfinder

"Let us return to 2000: a few days before Joel Spolsky published his Test, Mark Lucovsky gave a talk titled “Windows: A Software-Engineering Odyssey” at the 4th USENIX Windows System Symposium in Seattle, Washington. He was a member of the original Windows NT team from 1988 to the mid-2000s. The PowerPoint slides of the talk are still available online, and I seriously recommend you take a look at them.
Because part of the “odyssey” was, you guessed it, source control."
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Twenty Years Is Nothing
In a previous edition of this magazine, we argued that English was so pervasive in our industry, nobody even questioned its use anymore. The same can be said of Git. It is difficult to imagine that merely twenty years ago, the landscape of source control tools was more diverse, and the choice of one such tool was much more complicated than today. Actually, Git was not even on the map yet. Before debating whether the hegemony of Git is good or bad, let us go back in time for a little while.