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Figure 1.8
The Git Web site.
them is the same: to save past versions of your work in case you
lose the current version or you need to revert back to an older
one. A very basic example of simple version control would give a
file a version number of 1 on its initial creation. If that file is
then modified, the version number is bumped up to 2. The next
change would increment the version number again, and so on.
You may work a little differently with version control depending
on the file you
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re actually modifying. For example, if you
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re work-
ing on an .as file, you won
t need to check out or lock the file in
the versioning system unless you absolutely don
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twantanyone
else working on it at the same time. This is because the .as file
is, in essence, a text file in which the versioning system should
be able to read and decipher differences. In other words, you
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