These days Version Control Systems (also known as Revision or Source control) becoming more and more popular and used in world of computers and Internet. The main purpose of these systems is to provide it’s users with the ability to maintain multiple versions of the same document in electronic format.
Just imagine the situation when your project has two or more participants and all of them need the ability to quickly and securely access the files, save and share their changes with others, and sometimes go back in time and revert changes. Yes, it’s clearly not the task that can be easily done by the human being. Exactly for this
reason people developed these type of systems called Version Control.
There are plenty to choose from if you decided to get one for yourself. One of the oldest and respected ones is CVS (Concurrent Versions System) founded in 1990 and also used by Intechnic. Overall there are about 30 plus different version control systems on the market today. Some of them are Open Source and Proprietary Software (require license).
