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Multi-grain version control in the Historian system

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This paper describes Historian, a version control system that supports comprehensive versioning and features to aid history navigation. Comprehensive versioning is supported through frequent and automated creation of versions which typically results in a large number of versions. To reduce user overhead in history navigation, the hierarchical structure present in most documents is utilized to support fine-grained version control. The series of document editing operations is also organized hierarchically and can be used for navigation as well.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, California Polytechnic State University, 93407, San Luis Obispo, CA

    Makram Abu-Shakra & Gene L. Fisher

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Abu-Shakra, M., Fisher, G.L. (1998). Multi-grain version control in the Historian system. In: Magnusson, B. (eds) System Configuration Management. SCM 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1439. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053877

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