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Version control is critical for managing changes to source code over time. Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of ...

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There are many different version control systems available, but one of the most widely used is Git, which is the program that will track changes of your scripts (source code) over time. And Git should ...

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 ...

Git ' celebrated its 20th anniversary since its first commit on April 7, 2025. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of Git, GitHub is conducting an interview with Linus Torvalds. Git turns 20: A Q&A ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...

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 ...

Version control is the practice of managing and sharing changes to documents, programming code, websites or any other files to keep track of what’s been changed, by whom, when and why. All previous ...

Git is one of those tools that is so simple to use, that you often don’t learn a lot of nuance to it. You wind up cloning a repository from the Internet and that’s about it. If you make changes, maybe ...