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. Cory Benfield discusses the evolution of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

As it is possible to save a Keynote file so it is browsable as a folder, it seems like one should also be able to initialize a git repository from the root of this folder. It seems like this could ...

The latest version of Linus Torvalds' Git version-control system brings experimental support for the SHA-256 cryptographic hash, moving it away from its reliance on the less safe SHA-1. Google and ...