Public History of the GCC project

[law@redhat.com]

In message <10206260235.AA09163@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner writes:
 >     In the early days of the GCC project, no source control system was
 >     used at all.
 > 
 > Correct.
True.  We later "graduated" to emacs backups.

 >     CVS was not used before the egcs project started, though RCS was.
 > 
 > Correct, but a bit misleading.  I think the change from RCS to CVS
 > occurred at about the same time as the egcs fork, but there was a
 > period of a few years where the official GCC used CVS.
Actually we started using RCS a few years before the EGCS fork.  I don't
remember precisely when though.

jeff