Terms

Repository

• Repository is a Data storage solution where the history is maintained.
• Generally for this versioning is used and along with every version some meta data like reason for change is also maintained.
• Generally Repositories also have the option to view differences between versions.
• W.R.T CI/CD Pipelines we have two major repositories
  • Source Code Repository
  • Package Repository

Version Control System (VCS)

• VCS is used to store generally code (any files)
• We would require
  • Repository features
  • Multi-user
    • Synchronization
  • Multiple releases parallely

Evolution of VCS

• Single User VCS => VSS
• Multi User VCS => Subversion (SVN)
• Distributed VCS => Bitkeeper, Git

Architectures of Version Control System

• Centralized Version Control Systems
  
• Distributed Version Control Systems