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 ...

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 ...

Git may seem like it’s the only version control system out there sometimes. And while it’s definitely the most popular option right now, competing technologies like Subversion and Mercurial still have ...

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 ...

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 ...

As embedded systems become increasingly complex and incorporate new features and components with each generation, it is no longer possible for teams of two or three engineers to meet their demanding ...

VCSs have moved beyond a storage space for code to perform a lynchpin role in CI/CD. As such, they should support two features. Organizations that write any type of code usually use a source code ...

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 ...

These days, it seems like git has cleaned up its act on Windows and mostly works as expected. Third party tooling has come a long way as well, with things like TortoiseGit to provide a semi-familiar ...

And every version control system must possess universal attributes, he notes. One, it should provide revision control on individual assets or objects. Two, it should provide the obvious version ...