Since scripting becomes increasingly important in our projects, the rules of software development also start to apply to us. This has the downside that it requires extra effort from us, hydrologistsscientists, to learn new tools, but the upside is that there already is a wealth of properly tested tools and documentation available from the software development world. Having reproducible code is one of these important things, for which version control systems have been developed. It is very useful to use these systems in our projects, since they provide the following advantages:
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