Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Source Code Management

Whether described as a version or revision control system, Source Code Management (SCM), or some other name, the more common and more popular SCMs provide a host of features and capabilities to make certain aspects of the development process easier, faster, or at a minimum, more stable. These include the following:

• Allowing multiple developers to collaborate on the same parts of the same code base without having to worry (as much) about overwriting each other's work 
• Keeping track of all versions of a code base, and who made what changes to it at each point that a new version was committed
• Providing visibility into what changes were made as each new version was committed
• Maintaining different versions of the same code ...