Version control 🡆 VC is used to manage information changes. This information comes in form of documents, computer programs, software sources, large web sites and others. Changes are usually identified by a number (e.g. 1.0, 1.1, ..) or letter code (A, B, ..), refered to as the “revision number”, or simply “revision”. The terms “version control”, “revision control”, “revision control system” (RCS), version control system 🡆 VCS or “source control” are synonymous. This and subsequent documents refer to this general concept. However there is a specific implementation under the same name 🡆 GNU-RCS which is not covered.
Recently a special kind of 🡆 VCS/ RCS emerged the Distributed Version Control Systems (🡆 DVCS) or respective Distributed Revision Control Systems (DRCS). While 🡆 Arch, 🡆 Monotone, and 🡆 Darcs existed for some time only recently 🡆 Git or 🡆 Mercurial made 🡆 DVCS/DRCS popular.
In subsequent documents for all this terms Version Control System (VCS) is used. Information about the following 🡆 VCS can be found:
| Version | Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1.2 | 2022-07-15 | Improve ‘version control’ description, +dispatch |
| 0.1.1 | 2022-05-29 | Fix front matter YAML, +history |
| 0.1.0 | 2021-05-20 | Initial release |