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 ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.

There was a time when version control was an exotic idea. Today, things like Git and a handful of other tools allow developers to easily rewind the clock or work on different versions of the same ...

Traditional methods like dated ZIP files and shared network drives lack the structure and accountability needed for multi-developer automation projects. Git can work as a simple change monitor ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

Git is a distributed version control system developed to manage Linux kernel source code, and GitHub, which hosts Git repositories, has over 100 million users. On the other hand, in the development of ...