History and Adoption
Table explanation
- Software: The name of the application that is described.
- Notable users: is a list of well known projects using the software as their primary revision control system, excluding the software itself, followed by a link to a full list if available.
- History: briefly describes the software's origins and development.
| Software | History | Notable users |
|---|---|---|
| AccuRev SCM | 2002 First publicly released in 2002 | American Airlines, Ford, Lockheed Martin, Orbitz, Xerox, McAfee, Polycom, SanDisk, Siemens, Sony, Symantec, Thomson Financial, Verizon Wireless and many others |
| Bazaar | Loosely related to baz. Sponsored by Canonical Ltd.. | Ubuntu, Launchpad, KatchTV, MySQL, GRUB2, Bugzilla, GNU Emacs |
| BitKeeper | Influenced by Sun WorkShop TeamWare | Linux Kernel (2002–2005) and many companies |
| CA Software Change Manager | Original company founded in 1977; CA SCM (then called CCC/Harvest) first released in 1995. | CA does not disclose customer lists without the companies' permission. CA SCM is used by companies with global development teams including 13 of the Fortune 100. |
| ClearCase | 1990 Developed beginning in 1990 by Atria Software, following concepts developed by Apollo Computer in DSEE during the 1980s. The most recent version is 7.1.1, released in Dec 2009. | IBM, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Motorola, Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia, Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication and other large organizations worldwide |
| Code Co-op | 1997 The first distributed VCS, demoed in 1997, released soon after. | Clients include: Logitech, HP, Ericsson |
| CVS | 1986 First publicly released July 3, 1986; based on RCS | thousands of organizations worldwide |
| CVSNT | 1998 First publicly released 1998; based on CVS. Started by CVS developers with the goal adding support for a wider range of development methods and processes. | Primarily professionals (not hobbyists), e.g.: AnandTech, Wachovia, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs |
| darcs | 2003 First announced on April 9, 2003 | GHC, Mnet, xmonad, Projects Using Darcs |
| Fossil | 2007 Fossil and SQLite have used Fossil since 21 July 2007. | SQLite, Fossil, Tcl/Tk Project |
| Git | 2005 Started by Linus Torvalds in April 2005, following the BitKeeper controversy. | Linux kernel, Android, GNOME, KDE, Perl 5, X.Org, Cairo, Qt Development Frameworks, Samba, OpenEmbedded, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Wine, Fluxbox, Openbox, Compiz Fusion, XCB, ELinks, XMMS2, e2fsprogs, GNU Core Utilities, DokuWiki, Drupal, MediaWiki, Mono, ASP.NET MVC, ADO.NET Entity Framework, NuGet, jQuery and many of its plugins, OpenCV, OpenOffice.org (Also see list of Git projects) |
| GNU arch | 2001 Started by Tom Lord in 2001, it later became part of the GNU project. Lord resigned as maintainer in August 2005. | available for GNU Savannah and Gna.org projects |
| IC Manage | 2003 Developed by IC Manage, Inc which was founded in 2003 by Shiv Sikand and Dean Drako. | many organizations worldwide |
| MKS Integrity | 2003 Originally developed by MKS Software. Purchased by PTC in May 2011 | Many global engineering and IT organizations |
| LibreSource Synchronizer | 2005 First publicly released on June 13, 2005 | Most of the LibreSource Community |
| Mercurial | 2005 Started April 6, 2005 by Matt Mackall, following the BitKeeper controversy. First released on April 19, 2005 | Mozilla, NetBeans, Xine, Xen, OpenJDK, OpenSolaris, wmii, MoinMoin, Linux-HA, Pidgin, Python (Also see list of projects using Mercurial) |
| Monotone | 2003 First released in April 2003 | CTWM, Xaraya, I2P |
| Perforce | 1993 Developed by Perforce Software, Inc which was founded in 1995 by Christopher Seiwald. | many organizations worldwide, FreeBSD, Google |
| Rational Team Concert | 2008 Version 1.0 released on June, 2008 | IBM |
| Revision Control System | 1985 July 1985 | RCS is generally (but not always) superseded by other systems such as CVS, which began as a wrapper on top of RCS. |
| Source Code Control System | 1972Started by Marc Rochkind in 1972 (binary history files, written in Snobol on IBM-370), SCCSv4 with text history files was published February 18, 1977. The same history file format is still used in SCCSv5. | as the POSIX source-control tool, SCCS is widely available on UNIX platforms, but not included in many Linux distributions. Sun WorkShop TeamWare uses SCCS files. |
| StarTeam | 1995 Version 1.0 1995; Developed by StarBase software, acquired by Borland(which was acquired by Micro Focus). | Borland, BT, Cintas, EDS, Kaiser Permanente, Met Office, Quest Software, Raymond James, Siemens, and many more globally distributed companies |
| Subversion | 2000 Started in 2000 by CVS developers with goal of replacing CVS | ASF, SourceForge, FreeBSD, Google Code, KDE (-2011), GCC, PuTTY, Zope, Xiph, GnuPG, CUPS, Wireshark, TWiki, Django, WebKit, available on CodePlex, and many organizations worldwide |
| SVK | 2003 Authored by Chia-liang Kao with Audrey Tang. First version was on November 19, 2003. 1.00 on May 9, 2005. 2.0.0 on Dec 28th, 2006. SVK became a product of Best Practical on June 5, 2006. | Request Tracker |
| Synergy | 1988 Developed beginning in 1988 by Caseware, as AmplifyControl. The company was renamed Continuus in 1994, where the product became better known as Continuus/CM. Continuus was acquired by Telelogic in 1999 shortly after going public; the product was renamed Telelogic Synergy. IBM acquired Telelogic in 2008 for integration into their Rational tool suite. The product is now known as IBM Rational Synergy. | General Motors, BMW, Chrysler, Nokia, Philips, Raytheon, Morgan Stanley, Friends Provident, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Siemens and other small, medium and large organizations worldwide |
| Team Foundation Server | 2006 First publicly released on March, 2006 | Available on CodePlex, Microsoft itself and other large organizations worldwide |
| Vault | 2003 First publicly released in February, 2003 | Unknown |
| Vesta | 1991 First publicly released under the LGPL in 2001 | DEC Alpha team, Compaq Alpha team, Intel microprocessor development |
| Visual SourceSafe | 1995 originally created by a company called One Tree Software, version 3.1. Company was bought by Microsoft which released version 4.0 of VSS around 1995 | Unknown |
| Software | History | Notable users |
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