Version Control

Version Control Applications

Git

Git is a free & open source, distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency. Below are the highlights of Git:

• Distributed development - Git gives each developer a local copy of the entire development history, and changes are copied from one such repository to another. This means that Git clients don’t just check out the latest snapshot of the files: they fully mirror the repository.
• Strong support for non-linear development - Git supports rapid and convenient branching and merging, and includes powerful tools for visualizing and navigating a non-linear development history.
• Efficient handling of large projects - Git is very fast and scales well even when working with large projects and long histories.
• Cryptographic authentication of history - The Git history is stored in such a way that the name of a particular revision (a "commit" in Git terms) depends upon the complete development history leading up to that commit. Once it is published, it is not possible to change the old versions without it being noticed. Also, tags can be cryptographically signed.
• Toolkit design - Git is a collection of many small tools written in C, and a number of scripts that provide convenient wrappers.

In summary, Git is incredibly fast, it’s very efficient with large projects, and it has an incredible branching system for non-linear development.

• Git How-To
• Git Official Site
• Pro Git book
  • Best Practices
  • A Successful Git branching Model

Subversion

Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).

Subversion is well-known in the open source community and is used on many open source projects, including Apache Software Foundation, Free Pascal, FreeBSD, GCC, Python, Django, Ruby, Mono, SourceForge.net, ExtJS, Tigris.org, and PHP. Google Code also provides Subversion hosting for their open source projects. BountySource systems use it exclusively. Codeplex offers access to both Subversion as well as other types of clients.

Subversion is released under the Apache License, making it open source.

• Subversion Configuration
• svnserve Configuration
• svnsync Configuration
• Subversion Official Site