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Version Control Systems (VCS) track changes to project files, allowing users to revert to previous versions if needed. Originally designed for software development, VCS is also beneficial for scientific research and collaborations. This document focuses on Git as a preferred VCS due to its free, open-source nature and compatibility with RStudio.

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Version Control 1

Version Control Systems (VCS) track changes to project files, allowing users to revert to previous versions if needed. Originally designed for software development, VCS is also beneficial for scientific research and collaborations. This document focuses on Git as a preferred VCS due to its free, open-source nature and compatibility with RStudio.

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1 What is version control?


A Version Control System (VCS) keeps a record of all the changes you make to your files that make up a particular project and allows you to revert to previous
versions of files if you need to. To put it another way, if you muck things up or accidentally lose important files you can easily roll back to a previous stage in your
project to sort things out. Version control was originally designed for collaborative software development, but it’s equally useful for scientific research and
collaborations (although admittedly a lot of the terms, jargon and functionality are focused on the software development side). There are many different version
control systems currently available, but we’ we’ll focus on using Git, because it’s free and open source and it integrates nicely with RStudio. This means that its can
easily become part of your usual workflow with minimal additional overhead.

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