subject: Version Control: A Sneak Peek into what it is? [print this page] Also known as Revision Control or Source Control,Version Control helps in tracking various versions of your files that were created over a period of time.So to say,it helps in document management.People can go back to the earlier version of individual files,and make a comparison of the same or of the revisions done to the file.With the help of version control it becomes practically possible as well as feasible to retrieve any number of file revisions done at a point of time.
With this advantage that version control brings in,it creates a situation where people located at desperate locations can work on the same project through the internet and merge the changes right into the same repository source.Version control is a software configuration management which helps people in document management, make appropriate changes in documents or programs or files that contain important information.
Every revision done to the documents is marked with a timestamp along with the name of the person who has made the change.These revisions too can in turn be compared or restored or even merged.Correcting mistakes and updating details is very much possible through this kind of system and are found to be extremely beneficial for an organization that operates multi-developer projects.
All the version control systems facilitate multiple developers to work on the same file at different locations and that too at the same time.With version control,bug tracking too comes to fore as a result of different teams designing,developing and deploying the software.In order to locate and fix the bugs it becomes imperative that one is able to retrieve earlier versions of the software to identify where exactly the problem is present.
Therefore,with version control,not only document management becomes absolutely easy,bug tracking and fixing also becomes easy.
