To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software. The first ...

Microsoft announced on January 30 its roadmap for adding support for Git to its Visual Studio development-tool suite and Team Foundation app-lifecycle-management technologies. Cue flying pigs -- or ...

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The road to product release is forked, twisted, and winding — anything but straight. That’s because modern product development is increasingly multidisciplinary, rapid, iterative, and geographically ...

If you’ve spent any time evaluating software version-control systems, you have undoubtedly looked at GitHub Enterprise and Bitbucket Server, two big names that offer both on-premises installs and a ...

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 ...

Given Git's many advantages, Eclipse is making Git its preferred version control system, a move inspired by developers and members. " [For] all new projects, we highly recommend that they start with ...

As it is possible to save a Keynote file so it is browsable as a folder, it seems like one should also be able to initialize a git repository from the root of this folder. It seems like this could ...

Git is one of those tools that is so simple to use, that you often don’t learn a lot of nuance to it. You wind up cloning a repository from the Internet and that’s about it. If you make changes, maybe ...

What’s the difference between Git and GitLab? The key difference between Git and GitLab is that Git is a free, open source version control tool that developers install locally on their machines, while ...