Configurations

At special times during the software development process, you might want to create a "virtual snapshot" of your software system. You do this in SNiFF+ by assigning a selected version of all the files in your software system the same symbolic name. In SNiFF+, the set of all file versions having the same symbolic name is referred to as a configuration, and the symbolic name assigned to the set is its configuration name. The process of creating a single configuration and associating it with a symbolic name is called freezing a configuration.
Note that

INIT and HEAD are two special configurations used by SNiFF+.

INIT is the configuration name of the initial checked-in version of all version controlled files in your Repository.
HEAD is the configuration name of the latest checked-in version of all version controlled files in your Repository.