Everyone talks about Git and Mercurial, but many developers continue to rely on the Apache Subversion version control system. According to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), Subversion is the most ...

In the first part of this series on migrating from SVN to Git I talked about the reasons why we decided to make the switch. Now I’d like to talk about how you can migrate an existing project under SVN ...

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 centralized ...

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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 ...

A common cause for headaches when dealing with version control is the process of merging a branch of code back into the trunk. As a brief primer, software developers will use version control systems ...

Git may seem like it’s the only version control system out there sometimes. And while it’s definitely the most popular option right now, competing technologies like Subversion and Mercurial still have ...

Version 1.7 of popular CM tool brings more performance and enhances distributed use model for large IC design projects SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – February 8, 2012 – Methodics, Inc., the leading ...

Have you ever needed some information from a file, only to remember that you modified the file a week ago and removed the very information you're interested in? Or, have you ever spent hours sifting ...

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 ...