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What is version control?

What is version control?

The larger and more complex a site is, the harder it is to properly keep track of its content. At some point, tracking revisions, maintaining previous versions, and restoring files becomes impossible to do manually. This is where version control comes in. Version control, sometimes referred to as revision control or versioning, is the process of managing changes to content across various systems and workflows. In terms of working with content management systems, this often means tracking changes to content, assisting with collaborative workflows, and storing older versions of articles and files. Not all systems have version control built in, and truthfully not all workflows or CMSs need version control. To help you to decide if version control is something you need for your projects, let's examine some of the ways the version control can be used in a CMS. One of the first and most obvious uses of version control is to store older versions of content. Version control tracks content as…

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