The Relation of Version Control to Concurrent Programming

Authors: Annette Bieniusa, Peter Thiemann, and Stefan Wehr

In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering. 2008.

Abstract

Version control helps coordinating a group of people that work concurrently to achieve a shared objective. Concurrency control helps coordinating a group of threads that work concurrently to achieve a shared objective.

The seemingly superficial analogy between version control and concurrency control is deeper than expected. A comparison of three major flavors of version control systems with three influential and representative approaches to concurrency control exhibits a surprisingly close correspondences in terms of mechanism and workflow. The correspondence yields new perspectives on both, version control and concurrency control.

Bibtex

@INPROCEEDINGS{BieniusaThiemannWehr2008,
  author = {Annette Bieniusa and Peter Thiemann and Stefan Wehr},
  title = {The Relation of Version Control to Concurrent Programming},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering},
  year = 2008
}

Resources

An extended version appeard as TR 242 of the Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg (.pdf version of the TR).
CSSE 2008 homepage

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