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For those who just don't Git it

The Stack Overflow Podcast

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The Importance of Patch Algebra in Version Control

The author of this article started off researching Visual Source Safe, which uses patch algebra. Patch algebra is a completely different way of talking about version control. Instead of controlling versions, you're actually controlling changes. If you look at a commit on GitHub, for example, you will never see the actual commit.

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