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 ...

Everyone talks about Git and Mercurial, but many developers continue to rely on the Apache Subversion version control system. According to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Subversion is the most ...

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 ...

A common cause for headaches when dealing with version control is the process of merging a branch of code back into the trunk. As a brief primer, software developers will use version control systems ...

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 ...