Development projects require a team of developers all working on the same code at the same time. With this level of collaboration comes the risk of something going ...

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 ...

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 ...

So, how did you do on these introductory Git quiz questions for beginners? Were the Git quiz questions easy or hard? Modernize software quality in 2026 by treating it ...

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 ...

Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Perforce is provider of enterprise-grade development operations software solutions Snowtrack has been rebranded as P4 One, part of Perforce’s version control and ...

Torvalds cites a change in attitudes as assisting with adoption of distributed version control and Git. "I think what has happened is that it took even kernel people a few years to get used to the ...

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 ...