Automated Version Control

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The Long History of Version Control Systems

have been around since the early 1980s and are used by many large companies. However, many of these are now considered legacy systems (i.e., outdated) due to various limitations in their capabilities. More -modern systems, such as Git and Mercurial, are +modern systems, such as Git and Mercurial, are distributed, meaning that they do not need a centralized server to host the repository. These modern systems also include powerful merging tools that make it possible for multiple authors to work on the same files concurrently.

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For those interested, The Carpentries has a Version Control with +Mercurial lesson (2013-2018), which provides additional context and +historical perspective.

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Paper Writing

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    Key Points

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