I don't think git or subversion existed back then
According to Wikipedia, SCCS was developed in 1972 and RCS in 1982.
However, in those days most of us could not afford a Unix machine.
It was only end 1992 when I built a system running Linux and all of this
became much easier. I became coordinator in 1996, and my predecessor
PA0GRI had used Unix at home much earlier than me.
(I think he had a Unix system on packet radio in 1988 or so)
He developed the scripts used to send update mails to the robot, which I
continue to use. These just save a copy of the mails sent to the robot.
That is about 5MB now. Does not seem much, but there have been times this
was most of the harddisk capacity of a computer... :-)
Rob