Introducing Subversion Control
“Subversion” is a system that allows multiple people to work on your website at once and in a way that establishes clear versions between every tiny change of code. In practical terms it allows us to go back to a previous design, recover from security threats quicker, and helps us to remember what we were doing with your code when we come and look at it again some months later.
Subversion is like a member of the team here. Without it the business model would quickly fall apart. It’s got its quirks, like leaving the toilet seat up and making it difficult to just pop in an make changes to themes on the fly, but we wouldn’t change it for the world.
What benefit does Subversion have to you, our client?
By choosing an agency who uses Subversion you are able to have a little more peace of mind that your website is in safe hands. If something goes wrong we can just roll back to a previous stable version of the website. If you want to make changes we can test them out first and make sure they’re working before we put them on your live website. In all, you get a much more professional and accountable operation than you’re used to.
That’s right. Accountable. Because every bit of code has comments added by the person that was working on it and is checked-in securely we can be ready to explain what was happening with a particular part of the website at any given time.
It also allows us to log how much time we’ve spent working on your website down to the minute, meaning that you get an accurate bill and can more accurately plan how much you want to spend on maintenance hours.
