1.2 What Should You Store?
The short answer: everything.
The slightly less short answer: everything that you need to work on your project. Your repository needs a copy of everything in your project that’s essential for you to modify, enhance, and build new versions of it.
The first and most obvious thing you should store in the repository is your project’s source code. Without that, you can’t fix bugs or implement new features.
Most projects have some sort of build files. A couple of common
ones are Makefiles, Rakefiles, or Ant’s
build.xml. These need to be
stored so you can compile your source code into something
usable.
Other common items to store in your repository are sample configuration files, documentation, images that are used ...
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