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Git, the open source distributed software version control system pioneered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in 2005, is now gaining real momentum with developers. But don’t count out rivals like ...

Microsoft announced Wednesday that it is adding git support to TFS and Visual Studio, putting the distributed version control system on an equal footing with its current centralized system. In so ...

Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows.

(Chacon concedes that using Git to version-control very large software assets, such as videos, can present problems, but he advises using an asset management system along with Git in such cases.) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. At the heart of all large-scale software development projects ...

Visualization showing changes made in automation system code. Source: Auvesy Often considered more relevant to IT than operations, version control is just as critical for automation because these ...