Women in Technology

Article:		What's on Jason's Hard Drive
Subject:		Why use the revision control system?
Date:		2006-11-07 08:41:24
From:		p2pvoice
Response to: Why use the revision control system?
Jason, this article may indeed change my life. I constanly struggle with how to organize information - what you techies call taxonomy. The beauty of your heirarchical file structure and naming convention is its simplicity. I found this aspect of article more useful to me than the fact that you use Preforce! That leads me to two questions: 1. What benefits do you get from from the "revision control" aspect of Preforce? 2. Is there a similar "personal document manager" that would do the job? Thank Jason.! (I'll be thinking of you all through the holiday season when I commit myself to organize virtually.

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• Why use the revision control system?
  2006-11-07 14:52:37  Jason Hunter | [View]
  
  
  Hi,
  
  There are several reasons I've evolved my system to use a revision control system.
  
  1. First and foremost, not all files in my repository are write once. Many are, but not all (think resume.doc). Plus I store my active coding projects in the repository.
  
  2. Easy replication. Makes it easy to have copies of each file in every client. Something like a RAID or backup system doesn't help here. (The job for a RAID is to host the Perforce server.)
  
  3. I want something that works across operating systems and across decades. Revision control is well understood, reliable, prevalent, and here for the long term.
  
  -jh-