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Our previous post, “Empirical Evidence for the Value of Version Control“, generated a lot of comments. Many sought to explain why version control is helpful, but that’s not what we were looking for: we were looking for empirical evidence that it is. To see why we need it, take a look at this response from [...]

We received this by email: I use version control for my software, and I encourage others to do so, but I have no experimental evidence to base that decision. I pulled out my old copy of Code Complete (it’s a first edition), and the only reference it makes is to “Moore 1992″, which is a [...]