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Objectives

track of what one person did and when. Even if you aren’t collaborating with other people, automated version control is much better than this situation:

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Comic: a PhD student sends "FINAL.doc" to their supervisor, but after several increasingly intense and frustrating rounds of comments and revisions they end up with a file named "FINAL_rev.22.comments49.corrections.10.#@$%WHYDIDCOMETOGRADSCHOOL????.doc"
“notFinal.doc” by Jorge Cham, https://www.phdcomics.com

We’ve all been in this situation before: it seems unnecessary to have +

Comic: a PhD student sends "FINAL.doc" to their supervisor, but after several increasingly intense and frustrating rounds of comments and revisions they end up with a file named "FINAL_rev.22.comments49.corrections.10.#@$%WHYDIDCOMETOGRADSCHOOL????.doc"
“notFinal.doc” by Jorge Cham, https://www.phdcomics.com +
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We’ve all been in this situation before: it seems unnecessary to have multiple nearly-identical versions of the same document. Some word processors let us deal with this a little better, such as Microsoft Word’s Track @@ -391,14 +393,13 @@

Objectives

their metadata make up a repository. Repositories can be kept in sync across different computers, facilitating collaboration among different people.

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The Long History of Version Control +Systems

Automated version control systems are nothing new. Tools like RCS, CVS, or Subversion @@ -534,7 +535,7 @@

Key Points