DocumentCode
792134
Title
Version control
Author
Louridas, Panos
Author_Institution
Greek Res. & Technol. Network, Athens Univ. of Econ. & Bus.
Volume
23
Issue
1
fYear
2006
Firstpage
104
Lastpage
107
Abstract
Software evolves in small steps or versions. Often these versions are results of collaborations among different persons. At times we want to fall back to a previous version or compare different variants. Or, we need to trace changes to change requests. All these tasks relate to version control and show that tool support in this domain is indispensable, as it is with editors and compilers. The author describes available tools and shows why the CVS open source tool is so popular among practitioners
Keywords
configuration management; software prototyping; software tools; concurrent versions system; open source tool; software evolution; version control; Collaboration; Merging; Programming profession; Virtual colonoscopy;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MS.2006.32
Filename
1576667
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