Edward and Martin talk with their old bossEric Sink about the history of version controlas he's seen it - and helped create it. Eric foundedSourceGear, a company that created severalversion control products, and literally wrote the book on version control,Version Control by Example.

In his own words:

Eric's work in version control tools includes SourceGear Vault, whichwas quite popular in the early days of .NET, and Veracity, which wasone of the open source DVCS tools that got crushed by Git. SourceGeartoday has pivoted to become a 12-step recovery program for peopleaddicted to writing version control tools.

Show Notes

• Eric Sink
• SourceGear, the company behindSourceOffSite, Vault andSourceGear DiffMerge.
• Vault, the Movie, the trailer thatannounced SourceGear Vault.
• "Microsoft is becoming cool again",wherein Eric explains how it's his doing that Microsoft open-sourced .NET.