Ahmed El Gamil

So i have been working with a small personal coding project the last days, and i noticed that i will be distributing the code among several directories and files and i also need to go forward and backward in the code revisions, so i decided to get started with Subversion – The version control system.

I had some problems at first, then things started to get really good after some searching for information here and there, so here is a simple tutorial that will get you up with subversion in no time isA

First of all, What is Version control ?

Revision control (also known as version control (system) (VCS), source control or (source) code management (SCM)) is the management of multiple revisions of the same unit of information

Changes to these documents are usually identified by incrementing an associated number or letter code, termed the “revision number”, “revision level”, or simply “revision” and associated historically with the person making the change

So how does this apply to coding and source code, well, when you are working with lots of code some times you need to know how did the code look like at a specific time or specific “version”. Read more…