Category:Version Control
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What is version control?
Version control systems help you keep track of the different versions of files--especially source code files--which change and evolve during the course of a project. But, version control systems can do much, much more for you besides! Source makes it easy to:
- Collaborate with other researchers.
- Package and make your code available--for the RAE, for example.
- Recover past versions of files--very useful for recovering from disasters!
- Highlight differences between two versions of a file--very useful for finding bugs!
- Keep a record of when changes were made, add reminders about why they might have changed, who changed them etc.
- Develop variants (branches) of your code simultaneously.
- Work on your code from several different computers--without losing track of what the latest version is!
Pages in category "Version Control"
The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.