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Version Control, with Integrity

October 15, 2001
By Lori MacVittie

Reality Check
Version-control systems only live up to their potential if you can get your developers to use them correctly and not hack around the security. It's just too easy to change the permissions of the file on the command line (especially in a Windows environment), edit the file and then check it out and back in later -- without a care for the person who had it checked out first.