Why Use Version Control?

  • Provides one method for an entire team to use; allowing everybody to operate under the same 'ground rules'.

  • Keep all changes orderly vs. chaotic, saving development time

  • Ability to track changes promoting accountability. Thus, making it easier to find the right person to solve problems in the maintained resource.

  • Automatic maintenance of a list of exact changes made which can be retrieved quickly and easily, making it easier to advise users of the information on how it has changed from version to version.

  • It is easy to 'roll back' to an earlier version of the information, if a serious mistake was made during a change.

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