Version Control

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VSS can maintain multiple versions of a file, including a record of the changes to the file from version to version.

Version control addresses the following areas:

• Team coordination — making sure, by default, that only one person at a time is modifying a file. This prevents files from accidentally being replaced by another user's changes. Your administrator can change this default to allow multiple simultaneous checkouts of a single file, while still preventing overwrites of other changes.
  
  
• Version tracking — archiving and tracking old versions of source code and other files, which can be retrieved for bug tracking and other purposes.
  
  
• Cross-platform development — tracking portability issues involved in maintaining one code base across multiple development platforms.
  
  
• Reusable or object-oriented code — tracking which programs use which modules so that code can be reused.
  
  
• For more information on version control, see the Version Control and History section of VSS Help.