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Ananya Vishnoi
Ananya Vishnoi

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VCS v/s SCM

What is VCS?
VCS is Version Control System. It is a component of software configuration management.
In simple terms, practice of tracking and managing changes to software code and it saves all the versions of the file. It is also known as Source Control.

What is SCM?
SCM is Source Control Management. It has the additional features of Version Control System.
It tracks all the modifications to a source code files. Running a history of changes to a code base and helps to resolve conflicts when merging updates from multiple contributors.
In simple terms, it tracks all the changes what we done and perform operation on files.

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Deepak Singh

Try to go more deeper....BTW this is fantastic

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Ananya Vishnoi • Edited

yeah! sure.
Thank you