On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Rahul Sundaram <methe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/30/2011 06:59 PM, balaji sivanath wrote: >> >> oops. I just know about version control but i didnt use it as i will >> be developing very very tiny apps only by me. So, I thought version >> control is not necessary > > Let us assume that you are right and you are the only person going to be > contributing to your software. Even then, without the version history > and a clean record of the fixes you did and the rationale behind them, > you are likely to forget them and end up having to figure out why the > heck you changed something a few months down the line Also, if this > is free and open source software, it can end up getting used in > surprising ways and sometimes long after you lost interest. Having > version control that captures the changes goes a long way towards the > feasibility of someone else taking over. I strongly believe that using > version control is absolutely necessary as a basic tool regardless of > the size of the software. With software like etc-keeper, you can store > even changes in /etc/ configuration files in version control with a > apt-get or yum plugin and this too is quite handy
Sorry for my delayed reply. Thanks for the explanation, I will start to use version control hereafter. > Rahul > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > Regards, Balaji _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
