Source code management

In the mobile DevOps life cycle, one of the first phases is application development. Coding is one of the most important parts of the development life cycle, and managing that code is even more important in the long term.

When developers are continuously coding an application, managing that code becomes troublesome if not done properly. As the development progresses, code merges are more frequent and, with time, the development team grows quickly and more people need to integrate code with other developers.

Source code management becomes tricky and a very important part to focus on in order to ensure seamless development and code integration.

Need for source code management

Let's take a real-world example of application development in a small company. The team is of two people initially. The team starts coding the application and keeps their code in their local machines.

At the end of the day, both the developers share their changes and integrate their code.

Everything goes...