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  What's on Jason's Hard Drive
Subject:   Why use the revision control system?
Date:   2006-11-07 14:52:37
From:   jhunter
Response to: Why use the revision control system?

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-

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