njr, 7 months ago

@b0rk 2. We use version control for many different reasons. I suppose the most common are

• to allow us to recover from mistakes
• as backup
• to facilitate collaboration (multiple people working on the same code)
• to isolate experiments and allow independent development of different features
• literally to record and make concrete different versions of the software
• to record the history of how software evolves and is developed (inc. for education)
  and more.