[FRIAM] Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control

2011-12-17 Thread Tom Johnson
I suspect some of us will be interested in this brief history of version control. http://www.flourish.org/blog/?p=397 --tj Santa Fe FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures,

Re: [FRIAM] Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control

2011-12-17 Thread Steve Smith
Quite a walk down memory lane. Thanks Tom. My own memory involves paper tape and card decks as the persistent source with text files being ephemeral in the early days. It was much harder to keep variants in this form, but much easier to remember which version was the correct one. I'm sure

Re: [FRIAM] Astonishments, ten, in the history of version control

2011-12-17 Thread Greg Sonnenfeld
As a student of collaboration, and a long time user of revision control in code and in documents, I am a big fan, but also share the author's curiosity as to what is next?. I know git has a model for cloning, pushing and pulling from other clones, but does it have a feature for aggregating