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Recently, an edit to the VersionControlSystem article on the WLUG wiki drew me in to expand on it. My own work on that edit ended up taking up 4 days (in spurts), in the course of which I would add relevant points, only to notice that the additions revealed some structure trying to emerge, which would then cause me to go back to rearrange the text, which in turn would remind me of more relevant points to add, several times over. It was much more work than I expected, and I was quite tired and wanting to be done by the end. However, the effort ended up crystallising my conceptualisation of version control systems quite thoroughly. I have long been aware of all the individual points I wrote about, but it was only during this work that I came to understand their relations systematically. In order to make the effort expended more worthwhile, and because I do not know of any other article summarising the evolution in this manner (although of course I may well be ignorant), I thought I should give the article additional exposure by also posting it on my weblog.