Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.

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 ...

Distributed version control systems (DVCS) are becoming very popular among open source software projects. A growing number of projects have migrated or are in the process of carrying out a migration ...

A short while ago, an article appeared in Linux Journal implying Git was the be-all and end-all of source code revision control systems ("Git—Revision Control Perfected" by Henry Van Styn, August 2011 ...

Google Code, the search giant’s hosting service for open source software projects, is finally getting support for a distributed version control system. Google has announced that it will be supporting ...

We take a deep dive into the benefits of version control and version control systems. Learn more about versioning. Version control, also known as source control, is the practice of tracking and ...