In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is ...

Microsoft is backing Git rather than attempting to recreate the distributed version-control wheel. Here's the roadmap detailing how Git support is coming to Visual Studio and TFS.

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Torvalds and other Linux kernel developers created Git in 2005 as Linux's distributed version control system. It's also used by multiple major companies including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to ...

I’ve been a Subversion (SVN) user going on 9 years now. It’s been a great solution for source control throughout my career and I’ve implemented it at each stop along the way. It’s easy, reliable, and ...

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Depending on the version control software that you use, there could be different ways to handle this merge. In some cases, such as when Bob and Sue have worked on completely different parts of the ...

Gitless, an experimental version control system built atop Git, could make life easier for developers who find Git difficult to use.

I talked about why we decided to make the switch to Git, now I'll talk about how to actually migrate an SVN project to a Git repository.

My apologies if you speak the Queen’s English since that title probably has a whole different meaning to you than I intended. In fact, I’m talking about Git, the version control system. Last ...