Version control is—or at least should be—a critical part of the development process. As Garrett Rooney explains right at the beginning of Practical Subversion (published by Apress), using version control can help you recover that file you accidentally deleted, or put your code base back into the position it was in, when it worked, before you introduced that latest bug. For those not familiar with the topic, version control allows you to control and track the changes in text documents—typically development projects—so that you can monitor versions, create a static set of documents attributed to a global version number, and to log and synchronize changes to a project across a team...
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