Question

I’ve found SVN to be extremely useful for documentation, personal files, among other non-source code uses. What other practical uses have you found to version control systems in general?

Answer 1

I’ve seen version control being used for other non-source code purposes, like,

1. Schema files – a set of XML schema files that represent a real world schema
2. Content files – content represented in a specific format, this is tied to a designer in VStudio, using source control, allows history, rollbacks everything, with no database interaction

In both the cases we notice that it’s basically verbose files, primary reasons to have these files in source control as opposed to ‘text records in database’, is that

1. files that might need ability to compare versions
2. history (because multiple users work on them)
3. ability to rollback to an earlier version
4. labeling and releases by getting a specific label
5. if you use Team Foundation (TFS), the whole scrum templates with work items etc
6. no database involved, no extra development for all the above