On Wednesday, August 20, 2014 4:35:42 PM UTC+5:30, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Rustom Mody wrote:
> > It is interesting (and insidious) how technology shapes our thinking > > patterns. Before git, > Pardon me, but git did not invent revision control. There are dozens of > revision control software applications, including: > Mercurial: released April 2005 > Git: released April 2005 > GNU Bazaar: released March 2005 > Subversion: 2000 > Clearcase: 1992 > CVS: 1990 > Even venerable old cvs tracked authors. Ok I was mistaken -- only remembering from rcs where one had to put a 'cookie' containing rcs-variables that would be substituted. Which variables you put would decide which pieces of info were available; the info was in-band, if at all. Nowadays its all there, its out-of-band and the natural usage therefore is different. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
