When I wrote last month about the state of Linux file synchronization, I argued that most native Linux solutions are too complex or don’t provide a sufficiently seamless user experience. Some ...

Version control is critical for managing changes to source code over time. Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of ...

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 ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...

We discuss the differences between versioning and version control in a software development environment. Learn more. In software management, you will often hear about the concepts of versioning and ...

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 ...

Version control woes are still a real issue. Of course, control system integrators try to manage all the content associated with your projects, but sooner or later things can get out of hand and they ...

Branch management is the most difficult part of distributed version control system (DVCS) management. How developers separate the code they write for feature enhancements from hotfixes or public ...