To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software. The first ...

Invented for Linux kernel development, Git version control now powers millions of projects across the globe. You can use it with or without GitHub. Git is a software platform mainly used by computer ...

So, how did you do on these introductory Git quiz questions for beginners? Were the Git quiz questions easy or hard? While human oversight remains crucial and developers are far from handing over ...

Git is one of those tools that is so simple to use, that you often don’t learn a lot of nuance to it. You wind up cloning a repository from the Internet and that’s about it. If you make changes, maybe ...

Torvalds and other Linux kernel developers created Git in 2005 as Linux's distributed version control system. It's also used by multiple major companies including Facebook, Google, and Twitter, to ...

FabDoc is an interesting concept that attempts to tackle a problem many of us didn’t realize we had. There are plenty of version control systems for software, but many projects also have a hardware ...

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 ...

Before that, Torvalds had been content to keep Linux's code straight by hand. But, by 1999, as developer Larry McVoy observed, Torvalds was on the verge of burning out. The problem? You couldn't scale ...

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. Let’s draw a couple of lines first with a nod to the SESYNC research support community for its clarification.