versioning

Etymology

version + -ing

noun

  1. (computing) The use of versions as a means of distinguishing similar items.
    There have been many proposals to incorporate versioning in object-oriented databases. 1993, Stefano Ceri, Katsumi Tanaka, Shalom Tsur, Deductive and Object-oriented Databases
    2005, Longley et al, Geographic Information Systems and Science An alternative to pessimistic locking is optimistic versioning.

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