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 ...

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 ...

When developers perform distributed version control with Git, they should no longer think of the development workspace as simply a collection of files and folders stored on the file system. Git ...

Traditional methods like dated ZIP files and shared network drives lack the structure and accountability needed for multi-developer automation projects. Git can work as a simple change monitor ...

Jack Wallen shows how to use the .gitconfig file for global git configurations and a more efficient developer setup. Git is the most widely-used version control system on the market. It’s powerful, ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Revision control or source code control are also important, mainly because they’re all the same thing i.e. the ...

We take a deep dive into the benefits of version control and version control systems. Learn more about versioning. Version control, also known as source control, is the practice of tracking and ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...