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Software Engineering · Quiz 2 · 12 Apr 2026 · January 2026 term

Question 18: A team of 20 developers is working on a large web applic…

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A team of 20 developers is working on a large web application. One developer commits faulty code to the main branch that crashes the system. Other developers are unable to test their own changes. The team wants to quickly revert to a stable version and identify who made the faulty change. Which feature of a Version Control System directly addresses this situation?

  1. A

    Branching

  2. B

    Version history tracking

  3. C

    Staging area

  4. D

    Distributed repositories

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  • B

    Version history tracking

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Question 18 of 25 in the IIT Madras BS Software Engineering (Software Engineering) Quiz 2 paper sat on 12 Apr 2026, in the January 2026 term (Software Engineering 07 Apr 26). It carries 4 marks.

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