- Version Control is a method, implimented by policies, programs and procedures,
that promots orderly change of data and programs.
- Automated Version Control provides several capabilities:
- A method for maintaining information.
- The ability to make controlled changes to information.
- A way to track what changes were made and by whom.
- Methods for comparing any two versions of a data resource.
- A means to rollback or undo changes.
- Most Automated Version Control Systems operate on text files. Which can include:
- html documents,
- script files,
- software documentation,
- program source code,
- plain text documents,
- specially formatted documents, and
- other ASCII files.
- It may also allow controled change of non-text files, such as program
libraries, binary-formatted text (e.g., a word processing file), and other binary
files.
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