Arch quickly is becoming one of the most powerful tools in the free software developer's collection. This is the first in a series of three articles that teaches basic use of Arch for distributed ...

Wikis are not just for encyclopedias and Web sites anymore. You can use Ikiwiki in combination with your revision control system to handle issue tracking, news feeds, and other needs of a software ...

MySQL architect Brian Aker discusses the future of database storage engines, Amazon’s Web services, the next generation of distributed revision control and the economics of creating open source ...

In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is ...

In software development, Git is a distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) system with an emphasis on speed. Initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel ...

Developer tools provider Atlassian has released a free client that will allow programmers to access Git distributed revision control systems (DVCS) from Windows computers. “There is a big emergence of ...