• Git

History

• Version Control Systems | A Technical Guide to VCS Internals by Jacob Stopak
  • r/programming
  • Хабр / История систем управления версиями
• A History of Source Control Systems: SCCS and RCS (Part 1) by David Soria Parra
  • Hacker News

misc.

• r/editors / What is your file naming structure for versions & revisions?

RCS

• Wikipedia / Revision Control System With RCS, users can make their own revisions of a document, commit changes, and merge them.
• GNU RCS manages multiple revisions of files.
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CVS

• Wikipedia / Concurrent Versions System operates as a front end to Revision Control System (RCS), an older version control system that manages individual files but not whole projects.

Apache Subversion Enterprise-class centralized version control for the masses

• Apache Subversion Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used CVS.

Mercurial SCM is a free, distributed source control management tool.

• Wikipedia / Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers.

Darcs is a free and open source, cross-platform version control system, like git, mercurial or svn but with a very different approach: focus on changes rather than snapshots.

• Wikipedia / Darcs

Pijul is a free and open source (GPL2) distributed version control system.

• Hacker News

Jujutsu

• GitHub / jj-vcs/jj A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful
• jj-cheat-sheet.pdf by Justin Pombrio

Perforce

• Wikipedia / Perforce

BitKeeper

• Wikipedia / BitKeeper

Bazaar

• Wikipedia / GNU Bazaar is a distributed and client–server revision control system sponsored by Canonical.

SourceSafe

• Wikipedia / Microsoft Visual SourceSafe is a discontinued source control program oriented towards small software development projects.