quartz/content/notes/version-control-system.md

title	aliases	tags
version-control-system	VCS, version control system	info201

VCSs (version control systems) Are systems to keep track of changes to a set of files E.g., git

0.1 Goals

• allow collaboration
• track changes
• restoring previous versions
• finding out origins of issues
• backups
• not restrict workflow

0.2 Terms

cheatsheets/git-cheat-sheet

0.3 Discipline

• Pull/Push Regularly
• Use topic/features branches to keep main clean
• Dont use -f

0.4 Types

0.4.1 Centralised VCS

• Data is stored in one single central location
• Access is remote
• Checkout can block other devs

	graph TD
	subgraph Centralised Repo
		Boris-. commit .->R((Repository))-- checkout -->Boris
		R-- checkout -->Doris-. commmit .->R
		R-- checkout -->Dennis-. commmit .->R
	end

0.4.2 Distributed VCS

• Data is stored on every access point
• Good
  • more robust -> each dev has a backup
  • Don't need internet
• Bad
  • Hard to keep track of "main" files

0.4.3 Distributed + Centralised

• Main files are stored on central repo
• Each user also has their own copy locally

0.5 Sensitive information

• Passwords and other credentials among other things
• Data should be stored as encrypted blobs
  • BlackBox

0.6 Forking

• Cloning into a new remote repo in your account
• Allows community to contribute to projects without giving them write access to the original repo
• Process
  • Create a fork of a project
  • Make Changes
  • Pull request to merge fork back into project
  • Admins of project can acccept modify or reject pull request

0.7 software dev needs file wrangling

many copies of a project's source code files needed:

• facilitating different developers private code experiments
• working on fixing bugs in code
• developing new features
• reviewing code changes
• managing releases of sofware products
  • using git