As I wrote more and more scripts for my work, it become difficult to keep tracking different version of my scripts for different specific tasks. Adopting a source control management (SCM) tool has been put on my agenda. An SCM tool will be even more useful if one is participating a collaborative code development project. There are many such tools available today: Subversions, Mercurial, Git, CVS, etc. I choose Git not only because it is a neat solution in terms of version control but also due to the popularity of Git-based online code development platform, GitHub. Continue reading →