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What is Revision Control?

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What is Revision Control?

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A “revision control system” is a librarian and coordination tool for trees of files and the changes made to them. For example, a typical software project uses revision control to keep track of how the project’s source code evolves over time, to keep track of each change to that code (such as each bug fix or feature addition), to share those changes among all the programmers working on the project and help them remain in sync, and to combine changes made at different times and/or by different programmers into a single source tree. A “source management tool” is one that helps you to manage large source trees even if they have many more files that you can keep track of “by hand”. For example, a source management tool can inventory the source files in a tree, distinguish the source files from scratch files and and other files that maybe stored there, and inform you when source files are added and deleted. “Configuration Management” addresses the needs of projects which combine multiple, se

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