Version Control Operations

• Central repository keeps historical data
• A commit or check-in adds a change into the repository
• A pull or update or check-out retrieves a version from the repository
• Versions are tracked with version numbers or hashes
  • Numeric or hashes: automatically assigned
  • Symbolic: assigned by humans to track milestones
• On some VCSs Keywords in the source files are automatically expanded, identifying version, status, author, etc.

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