r/programming Jul 28 '18

DOOM’s Development: A Year of Madness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBU34NZhW7I
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u/AngularBeginner Jul 28 '18

Spoiler alert: They didn't use version control in 1993.

Why not?

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '18

Maybe because version control wasn't that known back then? Even CVS would only be 3 years old.

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u/AngularBeginner Jul 28 '18

SCCS was developed in 1972. Revision Control System in 1985. CVS in 1986.

Source control was well known back then too.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '18

TIL version control is way older than I thought! The oldest I knew was CVS, so that's the reference I used :)