Correction: What Is Version Control and Why Every Developer Needs It
Corrected by Melik Can Sariyer · Software Engineer and Linux OS Developer
Melik Can Sariyer found something wrong, outdated, or unsupported on this page and proposed a fix. The publisher accepted the correction.
- Role
- Correction
- Publisher
- When Notes Fly
- Topic
- Technology
- Status
- Accepted
- Date
- 12 July 2026
Changes accepted
1 edited
Computed from the content the publisher accepted, line by line. Neither the contributor nor CitePep writes this diff by hand.
−the dominant tool for open-source development through the 1990s; the Linux kernel used CVS until 2002
+the dominant tool for open-source development through the 1990s; the Linux kernel was managed with patches and tarballs until BitKeeper was adopted…
Why this is better
Verified the corrected text is present in the body ('the Linux kernel was managed with patches and tarballs until it adopted BitKeeper around 2002'), consistent with the later Git/BitKeeper narrative in the same article. The FAQ field does not mention this topic, so there was no stale content to fix. No changes needed.
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