Version control
Activity of managing versions of files / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Source control" redirects here. For other uses in medicine and environment, see Source control (disambiguation).
"Revision control system" redirects here. For the software tool, see Revision Control System.
Version control (also known as revision control, source control, and source code management) is the software engineering practice of controlling computer files and versions of files; primarily source code text files, but generally any type of file.
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Version control is a component of software configuration management.[1]
A version control system is a software tool that automates version control. Alternatively, version control is embedded as a feature of some systems such as word processors, spreadsheets, collaborative web docs,[2] and content management systems, e.g., Wikipedia's page history.
Version control includes viewing old versions and enables reverting a file to a previous version.