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 ...

Version control used to be practically synonymous with CVS, but those days are well behind us now. In fact, you not only have an abundance of systems to choose from, you also have two distinct models ...

Have you ever needed some information from a file, only to remember that you modified the file a week ago and removed the very information you're interested in? Or, have you ever spent hours sifting ...

Branching and merging are two inherently related functions that are due for a long-awaited upgrade in Subversion 1.5. In this article John Ferguson Smart explains branching and merging in Subversion ...

Git may seem like it’s the only version control system out there sometimes. And while it’s definitely the most popular option right now, competing technologies like Subversion and Mercurial still have ...

One of the applications my company has is supported by a 3rd party, which comes in, does some coding, then leaves. It is something like SAP (an ERP?) but different. It runs on an AIX ...

Get three programmers into a discussion about which code versioning system they prefer, and you're guaranteed to end up with some ruffled feathers. I mean, the choice is obvious, right? Which source ...

VCSs have moved beyond a storage space for code to perform a lynchpin role in CI/CD. As such, they should support two features. Organizations that write any type of code usually use a source code ...

Code hosting site SourceForge.net is moving into the future with new features and support for modern version control systems. These changes could make SourceForge a real contender again. Although ...