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 ...

Version control is critical for managing changes to source code over time. Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of ...

What if the very tool you rely on every day—Git—was holding you back? For all its ubiquity, Git isn’t without flaws: rigid branching structures, frustrating rebases, and the occasional merge conflict ...

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 ...

Once you step foot in the note-taking landscape, you’ll be greeted with FOSS, freemium, and paid applications designed to help you record all your ideas. Whether you’re a self-hosting manic who ...

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 ...

GitHub, the popular service for hosting Git repositories, has taken a step outside the box and improved upon the classic pastie service (place for coders to post code snippets). To do that, GitHub ...

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 ...

Responding to user demand, Microsoft now allows projects using its CodePlex open source code repository to use the increasingly popular Git version-control system built by Linux creator Linus Torvalds ...

One of the more surprising stories of the past year was Microsoft's announcement that it was going to use the Git version control system for Windows development. Microsoft had to modify Git to handle ...