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 ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The key to GitHub-based DevOps is the Git repository around which every operation is based.

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 ...

Git, the open source distributed version control system created by Linus Torvalds to handle Linux’s decentralized development model, is being used for a rather surprising project: Windows.

Back in February, Microsoft made the surprising announcement that the Windows development team was going to move to using the open source Git version control system for Windows development. A little ...