Version Control

At LiteBreeze we use an open source version control system called Subversion. Subversion is immensely popular and is being used not only by companies working with the PHP programming language. Big players such as Apache and Debian Linux rely on Subversion to keep track of the code of their software projects (which are of significant size).

Subversion allows us to review daily contributions of code by specific developers in a project. This fosters accountability. As there’s a history of changes and who made the change quick feedback can be given to the right person and future mistakes can be avoided.

It also:

• Allows us to track down and find the cause of bugs.
• Works as an additional layer of backup.