If you’ve ever explored the world of software development, then chances are you’ve heard of GitHub. This code hosting platform is one of the most popular ways for developers to host their projects and ...

Do you use source control tools to manage your software development process? Source control was the very first item on Joel Spolsky's Joel Test for the quality of a development team back in 2000.

Branching creates multiple “copies” of the same repository and allows you to separate out a set of changes while you experiment with them, or to create different versions of a project, without ...

Jonathan Corbet wrote a document for inclusion in the kernel tree, describing best practices for merging and rebasing git-based kernel repositories. As he put it, it represented workflows that were ...

Branching and merging are two inherently related functions that are due for a long-awaited upgrade in Subversion 1.5. In this article John Ferguson Smart explains branching and merging in Subversion ...

Started on a new team recently (data engineers/ETL using Pentaho) and found out that while they were using a git (BitBucket) to store their jobs and transformations, they were using git absolutely ...