Skip to content
Archive of entries posted on 1st March 2009

The Whys and Wherefores of Version Control Systems

This may be considered heresy by some, but for the first twenty years of my programming career, I never used a version control system. In fact, I barely even knew what one was. I’d heard of CVS, and I knew that there was something called Visual SourceSafe in Visual Studio, but I never saw the [...]