The Problem
Imagine you are writing a document. You make some changes, then realize you liked the old version better. What do you do?
The "Old Way"
📄 report.doc 📄 report_v2.doc 📄 report_final.doc 📄 report_final_FINAL.doc 📄 report_final_FINAL_v2.doc 📄 report_USE_THIS_ONE.doc
Sound familiar? This is chaos. And it gets worse when multiple people work on the same project.
This problem is not just for documents — it is even worse for code. Software projects have thousands of files, and teams of developers making changes simultaneously.