Revision control services

Revision control is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, web sites, and other collections of information.

Revision control allows for the ability to revert a document to a previous revision, which is critical for allowing editors to track each other's edits and correct mistakes.

Overview
Help & troubleshooting
Our commitments

Overview

Eligibility

This service is available to:

all staff (via their DCO)

student societies by special arrangement

Revision control, also known as version control and source control, is the management of changes to documents, computer programs, web sites, and other collections of information. Revisions to files can be compared, restored, and with some types of files, merged.

Revision control allows for the ability to revert a document to a previous revision, which is critical for allowing editors to track each other's edits and correct mistakes.

How to request

Staff should contact their Department Computing Officer (DCO) in the first instance. The DCO will then get in touch with the Library & IT Help Desk on your behalf.

Student societies should contact the IT Support directly.

Help & troubleshooting

Training

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Library & IT Help Desk

If you're having problems with the revision control services, get in touch with the IT Support.

Our commitments

Service status	Live and supported service.
Hours of service	24/7
Service support	For help and support with this service, contact the IT Support.
Hours of support	Help from the Library & IT Help Desk is available 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday.
Target availability	General IT Services targets: Information Services Service Standards
Resilience	The service runs on our high-availability virtual machine platform; in the event of a major incident it will automatically failover between data centres, with only a brief outage. Filestores are replicated between data centres and should also fail over automatically.
Our performance	Our service standards have been produced in consultation with our customers, and monitor the quality, timeliness and access to facilities and services: Information Services Service Standards
Complaints procedure	If you wish to give us general feedback on this service, please see our Feedback page for ways to get in touch. If you wish to make a complaint, please see our complaints procedure.