Development projects require a team of developers all working on the same code at the same time. With this level of collaboration comes the risk of something going ...

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 ...

Teams must be able to quickly share their work with simple tools that make the process easy. That's where a distributed version control system (DVCS) like Git comes in. While cumbersome on other ...

Once vehemently opposed to open-source software, Microsoft has warmed to the development model over the years and will now take the unusual step of incorporating an open-source program developed by ...

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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 ...

(Chacon concedes that using Git to version-control very large software assets, such as videos, can present problems, but he advises using an asset management system along with Git in such cases.) ...