3.5. Scaling the Development Model

Source control is as important for a single developer as it is for a small team, but the utility increases as the number of developers grow. Most source-control systems are designed to scale to many simultaneous developers, allowing many people to work on the same project or even the same files at once.

As your development team grows from a single engineer to a small group, little will need to change about your source-control usage. When moving from one to two developers, you'll need to start updating your checked out copy of the source code more often, to integrate changes from other developers back into your working copy. A good rule of thumb is to update your working copy at the start of every development session and additionally when another developer commits a large change set.