Source Code Management
Source Code Management gives teams a shared, versioned history of their codebase – so changes are tracked, conflicts are resolved, and nothing is ever truly lost.
What Is Source Code Management?
Source Code Management is the practice of tracking and managing changes to a codebase using version control systems, enabling collaboration, history tracking, and rollback capabilities. It provides a structured record of every change made to the code – who made it, when, and why – and enables multiple developers to work on the same codebase simultaneously without overwriting each other’s work.
Modern source code management is dominated by Git – the distributed version control system that underpins GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and most other code hosting platforms. Git enables teams to work on parallel branches, merge changes through pull requests, and maintain a complete, auditable history of every change ever made to the codebase.
Source code management is the foundation on which the rest of the development workflow is built. CI/CD pipelines are triggered by SCM events. Code review happens within the SCM platform. Automated analysis tools integrate with SCM APIs to review changes at the pull request stage. Without a well-managed source code repository, none of these downstream capabilities are possible.
For teams using AI development tools, SCM integration is essential – AI agents need access to the repository to read code, understand context, open pull requests with fixes, and track the history of changes that led to a given state.
