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This is a separate layer from the CRT source, which is why you didn't find it there. It's maintained separately, versioned separately, and deployed separately.

This also doesn't actually appear to have any commits corresponding to any released compiler versions- commit history only goes back a couple of weeks. I suspect they'll show up once an actual release has shipped out of this repository.

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Our commit history is stretched across multiple Microsoft-internal source control systems. In my career (2007+ in MSVC), that’s Source Depot, two databases of Team Foundation Server, and currently Git in Azure DevOps.

Unfortunately, we will not be making the history prior to the GitHub “Initial commit” public. It would be a huge amount of work, would bloat the git repo, and would be of little utility. (We occasionally have to perform programmer-archaeology, but rarely more than a year, and usually it’s only something that the developer who made the change can do due to personal memories.)

Consider this a fresh start. We will figure out a way to tag commits corresponding to shipped releases.

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