Git is straightforward to begin with, but when you're ready, you can progress onto more advanced topics like branching, merging, conflict resolution, etc. Let's start by changing to a directory and ...

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 ...

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.

Git, the open source distributed software version control system pioneered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in 2005, is now gaining real momentum with developers. But don’t count out rivals like ...

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 ...

In this post, we will show you how to add Repository Folders for File Explorer version control in Windows 11. When you create a repository on GitHub, it exists online as a remote repository. To work ...

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 ...

Git 1.8.5.1 is now out. Git, the open source version control system designed to handle all types of projects quickly and efficiently, just reached version 1.8.5.1. Git is an open source distributed ...

Git is the most popular version control system (VCS) among programmers and developers for software development. It’s free and open-source and available for all major operating systems: Linux, macOS, ...

Azure DevOps and GitHub are both developer collaboration tools owned by Microsoft. Despite these similarities, the two DevOps tools are far from interchangeable. Developers in need of a software ...