© Chad Russell 2016

Chad Russell, PHP Development Tool Essentials, 10.1007/978-1-4842-0683-6_1

1. Version Control

Chad Russell

(1)Jacksonville, Florida, USA

If you’re not already using some type of version control on your project, you should definitely start now. Whether you’re a single developer or part of a bigger team, version control provides numerous benefits to any project, big or small.

If you’re not familiar with what version control is, it is a system used to capture and record changes in files within your project. It provides you with a visual history of these changes, giving you the ability to go back and see who made the changes, what they changedboth files and the changed contents, when they made the change, and, by reading their commit ...

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