Types of VCS

The types of VCS are mentioned as follows:

• Local version control system: In a local VCS, all the changes to a file are kept in the local machine, which has a database that has all the changes to a file under revision control, for example, Revision control system (RCS).
• Centralized version control system: In a centralized VCS, we can collaborate with other developers on different machines. So in these VCS, we need a single server that contains all the versioned files and the number of clients can check out files from that single server, for example, Subversion (SVN).
• Distributed version control system: In a distributed VCS, the client not only checks out the latest version of the file but also mirrors the whole repository. Thus if any server dies, and these systems were collaborating via it, any of the client repositories can be copied back to the server to restore it. An example of this is Git.