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 ...

Here at ProfHacker we’ve written a lot about backups, but never about version control. In fact, when I recently wrote “A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website”, I ...

We take a deep dive into the benefits of version control and version control systems. Learn more about versioning. Version control, also known as source control, is the practice of tracking and ...

What if the very tool you rely on every day—Git—was holding you back? For all its ubiquity, Git isn’t without flaws: rigid branching structures, frustrating rebases, and the occasional merge conflict ...

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 ...

Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. With every company now a software company, at least according to some experts, businesses are having to find ways to ...

The U.S. Defense Department is enlisting an open source approach to software development — an about-face for such a historically top-down organization. In recent weeks, the military has launched a ...

Developers love open source. In truth, many people outside of the professional software engineering cognoscenti are very fond of open source too, often optionally using a degree of open applications ...

The promise of open source is to make software tools free and open, yet some versions contain proprietary add-ons, licensing terms, or risks that must be vetted first. “We allow customers to ...