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Distributed version control systems (DVCS) are being adopted at a rapid pace by the open source software community. A large number of prominent open source projects are abandoning legacy management ...

When I wrote last month about the state of Linux file synchronization, I argued that most native Linux solutions are too complex or don’t provide a sufficiently seamless user experience. Some ...

Version control is critical for managing changes to source code over time. Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of ...

We've watched many of our favorite open source libraries migrate from Google Code hosting to BitBucket and GitHub lately. The main reason is that most of the projects wanted to move from centralized ...

Where Git fits in your distributed version control system tool belt Follow these Git commit message guidelines Where system, global and local Windows Git config files are saved How Atomist's Rod ...

Torvalds cites a change in attitudes as assisting with adoption of distributed version control and Git. "I think what has happened is that it took even kernel people a few years to get used to the ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...