While some organizations may benefit from centralized version-control tools, others might be better suited for distributed version-control systems or a combination of the two.

git and Mercurial, two open source distributed version control systems (DVCS), had the highest approval rates, over 95%. Subversion , an open source centralized VCS, also had a very good approval ...

We’ve watched many of our favorite open source libraries migrate from Google Code hosting to BitBucket and GitHub lately. The main reason is that most of the projects wanted to move from ...

Few organizations regret moving their source code into Git, but for those coming from other version control systems, there is a bit of a learning curve. Here are five key points to remember if you are ...