Source-Code Control

Abstract

Without a doubt, protecting the investment you’ve made developing your iOS application by preventing loss due to a system crash or other mishap has to be done whether you’re working for a company or a contractor or running your own business. Not too long ago we backed up our work to floppy disks or separate hard drives, even USB/Flash drives. When cloud storage services such as Dropbox became available, things became a bit easier, but these still did not offer the services required for maintaining more than rudimentary file backups. What we really needed was some type of version control; that is, a way to not only store back-up files but also keep track of changes so that it would be possible to revert to an earlier version if something we tried didn’t work out.