Version Control Blog

Martin Fowler writes about Apple Time Machine, which is an attempt to give something like version control to ordinary users. He advocates the idea that more and more applications for non-developers could incorporate some aspects of version control, especially for collaboration needs.

So my hope that is that Time Machine will spur development of applications that are aware of versioning and can take advantage of it, which will in turn shift to more effective collaboration.

Read more at Martin Fowler: “Pervasive Versioning” and “More Version Control”.

Recent posts on similar topics

• Tim O'Reilly: Why Congress Needs a Version Control System - October 7th, 2007
• Mark Shuttleworth on renaming and merging - October 7th, 2007
• Ian Clatworthy: "The Future Is Adaptive" - October 6th, 2007
• Google Diff, Match, and Patch libraries for plain text - August 15th, 2007
• Ken Takusagawa: "Version control filesystem for software packages and system configuration" - June 25th, 2007

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