Editing Version control (section)

== History ==

{{See also|Comparison of version control software#History and adoption}}

IBM's OS/360 [[Support programs for OS/360 and successors#IEBUPDTE|IEBUPDTE]] software update tool dates back to 1962, arguably a precursor to version control system tools. Two source management and version control packages that were heavily used by IBM 360/370 installations were [[The Librarian (version control system)|The Librarian]] and [[Panvalet]].<ref>{{cite interview | url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107328 | title=An Interview with Martin Goetz | first=Martin | last=Goetz | interviewer=Jeffrey R. Yost | publisher=Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota | location=Washington, D.C. | date=May 3, 2002 | pages=5&ndash;7 | access-date=August 17, 2023 | archive-date=September 26, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926164955/https://conservancy.umn.edu/items/0277706b-af0f-4a02-84d6-ff74b1d410aa | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite interview | last=Piscipo | first=Joseph | interviewer=Thomas Haigh | url=https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/107601 | title=An Interview with Joseph Piscopo | publisher=Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota | location=Washington, D.C. | date=May 3, 2002 | pages=3, 5, 12&ndash;13 | access-date=August 17, 2023 | archive-date=September 26, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926164956/https://conservancy.umn.edu/items/9e1d3842-5a3b-495f-ae5a-d6aa3baaf109 | url-status=live }}</ref>

A full system designed for source code control was started in 1972: the [[Source Code Control System]] (SCCS), again for the OS/360. SCCS's user manual, especially the introduction, having been published on December 4, 1975, implied that it was the first deliberate revision control system.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://basepath.com/aup/talks/SCCS-Slideshow.pdf |journal=IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |volume=SE-1 |issue=4 |pages=364–370 | title=The Source Code Control System|year=1975 |doi=10.1109/TSE.1975.6312866 |s2cid=10006076 |last1=Rochkind |first1=Marc J. }}</ref> The [[Revision Control System]] (RCS) followed in 1982<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tichy|first=Walter F.|date=1985|title=Rcs — a system for version control|url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1393&context=cstech|journal=Software: Practice and Experience|volume=15|issue=7|pages=637–654|doi=10.1002/spe.4380150703|s2cid=2605086|issn=0038-0644|access-date=2023-12-28|archive-date=2024-09-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926164944/https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1393&context=cstech|url-status=live|url-access=subscription}}</ref> and, later, [[Concurrent Versions System]] (CVS) added network and concurrent development features to RCS. After CVS, a dominant successor was [[Apache Subversion|Subversion]],<ref>{{Citation | last1 = Collins-Sussman | first1 = Ben | last2 = Fitzpatrick | first2 = BW | last3 = Pilato | first3 = CM | title = Version Control with Subversion | publisher = O'Reilly | year = 2004 | url = https://archive.org/details/versioncontrolwi00coll | isbn = 0-596-00448-6 | url-access = registration }}</ref> followed by the rise of [[distributed version control]] tools such as [[Git]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Loeliger |first1=Jon |last2=McCullough |first2=Matthew |date=2012 |title=Version Control with Git: Powerful Tools and Techniques for Collaborative Software Development |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIucp61eqAwC |publisher=O'Reilly Media |pages=2–5 |isbn=978-1-4493-4504-4 |access-date=2023-03-22 |archive-date=2024-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240926164947/https://books.google.com/books?id=qIucp61eqAwC |url-status=live }}</ref>