Gitless, an experimental version control system built atop Git, could make life easier for developers who find Git difficult to use. “Many people complain that Git is hard to use,” the project’s web ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. In this episode, Suhail Patel joins Thomas ...

It is very easy to see exactly what changed. So even if you don’t work in a team, there are advantages to having source code under control. If you are already using a more advanced IDE, Git is ...

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 ...

Y ou've likely heard of Git as a mysterious tool programmers use to work with their code. However, since Git can track ...

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 ...

GitHub is the host with the most for open-source projects and programmers who want to share and collaborate on code. Here’s why. GitHub is at heart a Git repository hosting service, i.e. a cloud-based ...

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

In the first part of this series on migrating from SVN to Git I talked about the reasons why we decided to make the switch. Now I’d like to talk about how you can migrate an existing project under SVN ...