Revision Control is a way to have a backup of your work that is also a complete history of everything you've done. With a revision control account you can:

• Save your novel-in-progress on our server, giving you a back-up copy that you can access from anywhere in the world.
• Make a mistake and save it? That's okay, your revision control account saves every change you commit to the server, so you can go back to any previous version, no matter how many changes you have made since.
• Maintain multiple branches of your work. This is useful if, after the dust of NaNoWriMo has settled, you send off copies of your novel to two editors to work on -- when they return the edits, you can merge them -- that means bring just the edits you want into your work, comparing all three versions (unedited and your editors' changes) on the fly.

Currently, the revision control system available on wrimos.net is Subversion. The Subversion home page includes the handbook as well as some good tutorials. I hope to put up a wrimo-specific tutorial here soon (please contact me if you would like to volunteer to write a tutorial for this site). Git may also be available at some point in the future.

Ready to get started? Fill out the revision control account request form to get your own subversion account. (You must be logged in to fill out the form.)