Importance of Versioning and Version Control Systems

In web project development, there is always existence of changes in files. These changes could be either development or bug fixes or any additional features requested by the client or project manager. The developer is always in the process of changing files or creating files. But problem arises when there are more than one developer working on the  same project. We need to keep them in sync of each other so that changes made by one are not overwritten by another developer. We also need to track the changes if something bad happens.

     Here comes the importance of versioning of files. There are many version control systems available to keep track of these changes. These systems help maintaining the changes and the lines of code added, edited or removed on each sync. Development is made easier  and we can keep track of the changes also. There are many other benefits of using these systems. So, every developer should practice version control for his project(s).