# Is it possible to version files independently?

**URL:** <https://discuss.dvc.org/t/is-it-possible-to-version-files-independently/1498>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [February 3, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/is-it-possible-to-version-files-independently/1498 "2023-02-03T22:02:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![hugoehlinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@hugoehlinger](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/hugoehlinger)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/is-it-possible-to-version-files-independently/1498/1 "2023-02-03T22:02:45Z")

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Hello DVC community!

I have a tricky use case and I’m not sure this is feasible with DVC.  
My project features several datasets that I would like to version independently. I would like to keep track of:

- dataset 1 with its own set of tags
- datset 2 with its own set of tags
- dataset 3 with its own set of tags  
so that I can execute a script with any combination of the versions of the three datasets (ex: dataset 1 v1, dataset 2 v2, dataset 3 v3 or dataset 1 v3, dataset 2 v2, dataset 3 v3, etc.).

Is this use case feasible with DVC?

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**Author:** ![ronan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ec8ea/32.png) [@ronan](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/ronan)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 12:31pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/is-it-possible-to-version-files-independently/1498/2 "2023-02-07T12:31:21Z")

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Hello @hugoehlinger !  
DVC can’t easily handle independently-versioned datasets within the same project. I guess the best way would be to have a data preparation stage that has the dataset versions as params and pulls the right combination of data from elsewhere (possibly auxiliary DVC repos containing only one dataset each).

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**Author:** ![hugoehlinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@hugoehlinger](https://discuss.dvc.org/u/hugoehlinger)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2023, 9:18pm UTC](https://discuss.dvc.org/t/is-it-possible-to-version-files-independently/1498/3 "2023-02-15T21:18:58Z")

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Hello @ronan ! Thanks for answering me and giving me this tip  
Best,