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At least you got to skip going through such wonders as Source Safe, ClearCase, MKS Source Integrity or Serena Version Manager.

I'm not sure what MPW Projector is, but the rest are pretty mainstream.

It's amazing how many proprietary revision control systems there are, and how much worse they are than the free ones.

RCS clearly wasn't good enough for a team (distributed or not) or concurrent development, but CVS was good enough, with incremental improvements by SVN & Git.

The proprietary systems usually offer integration with a but tracker (mandatory ticket ID on check-in/commit) to lure the ignorant who don't know about commit triggers. Otherwise, they tend to be very slow, frequently time-out their licenses / login-sessions, and/or have a very deficient command line interface making it difficult to script a build system.



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