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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key difference between Git and GitLab is that Git is a free, open source version control ...

Version control used to be practically synonymous with CVS, but those days are well behind us now. In fact, you not only have an abundance of systems to choose from, you also have two distinct models ...

The use of open source in the enterprise is blooming as organizations seek to reduce time to implementation and hopefully reduce costs. A 2019 RedHat report on “The State of Enterprise Open Source” ...

Open-source software is free, flexible and adaptable, but lax oversight can obliterate the benefits. Here's how IT is keeping track. The most attractive aspects of open-source software can also be the ...