Source control systems are an integral part of software development. As soon as there is more than one person working on the project, it becomes an invaluable tool for sharing source code. Even when we are on the project on our own, there is no better way for tracking versions and source code changes. The question arises: how should we put the installed packages into source control?
The first impulse would be to simply add the packages folder to the repository. Though this will work, it isn't the best possible approach. Packages can grow quite large and they can be obtained from elsewhere; therefore, we would only "pollute" the repository with redundant files. Many source control systems don't handle large binary ...
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