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version control in action
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VERSION CONTROL
Keeping track of source code (or any kind of files for that matter)
across a project is tricky. You have lots of people working on
files—sometimes the same ones, sometimes different. Any serious
software project needs version control, which is also often called
configuration management, or CM for short.
Version control is a tool (usually a piece of software) that will keep
track of changes to your files and help you coordinate different
developers working on different parts of your system at the same
time. Here’s the rundown on how version control works:
“Check out”
means you
get a copy of
BeatBox.java
that you can
work on.
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I need the
BeatBox.java file, too.
Other people can get
a copy of the original
file while Bob works
on his changes on his
local machine.
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Bob checks out BeatBox.java
from the server.
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You’ll also see this referred to as
configuration management, which is a little
more formal term for the same thing.
I need the
BeatBox.java file.
The rest of your team can check
out Version 1 of BeatBox.java
while Bob works on his version.
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Bob’s Machine
Found it, here ya go…
Found it, here ya go…
Bob makes some
changes to the code and
tests them.
The version control
server looks up files and
returns the latest version
to the developers.
The server running
version control software