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concurrent version system

computing
Also known as: CVS
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    The concurrent version systems (CVS) available for version control at the time struggled to categorize larger code changes and were susceptible to bugs, and Torvalds disliked other open-source options. In 2002 Torvalds and Linux introduced and began to use the version control system BitKeeper—a proprietary DVCS…

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    The concurrent version systems (CVS) available for version control at the time struggled to categorize larger code changes and were susceptible to bugs, and Torvalds disliked other open-source options. In 2002 Torvalds and Linux introduced and began to use the version control system BitKeeper—a proprietary DVCS…

    Read More