A lot of non-coders and people unfamiliar with the app development scene often confuse Git and GitHub, but only the latter is the online code repository for inscrutable projects. That's one half of ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Andres Almiray, a serial open-source ...

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.

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 ...

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...

What if the very tool you rely on every day—Git—was holding you back? For all its ubiquity, Git isn’t without flaws: rigid branching structures, frustrating rebases, and the occasional merge conflict ...

In the first part of this series on migrating from SVN to Git I talked about the reasons why we decided to make the switch. Now I’d like to talk about how you can migrate an existing project under SVN ...

Digital Rights Management software makes it difficult to copy movies, music, ebooks, and games that you already own. There are ways around it, but breaking DRM opens up legal and ethical concerns. AOL ...