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Managing versions of source code or data

Version control is the software engineering practice of controlling, organizing, and tracking different versions in history of computer files – primarily source code text files, but generally any type of file. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: Version controlA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Study on Revision of Foreign Trade Act to strengthen Export Control System - Focusing on Comparison with the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 -Influential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Final study report for the space shuttle Ii advanced space transportation systemThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Making sense of revision-control systemsCited 34 times
  5. Go sideways: Distributed version controlA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Comparison of version-control softwareA closely related topic

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