Both the concept and practice of revision control (also known as version control) are near and dear to my heart; a body of work as a technical writer, programmer, and project manager before moving ...

Darcs is a relatively new revision control system that was written in Haskell by physicist David Roundy. The system is designed around a "theory of patches" which has its roots in quantum mechanics.

I've seen some "industrial" motherboards lately that claim to have "revision control." What is revision control? I've also seen makers of industrial motherboards claim that revision control extends ...

A short while ago, an article appeared in Linux Journal implying Git was the be-all and end-all of source code revision control systems ("Git—Revision Control Perfected" by Henry Van Styn, August 2011 ...

If you spend much time helping people with word processor programs, you’ll find that many people don’t really use much of the product. They type, change fonts, save, and print. But cross-references?

In 2005, after just two weeks, Linus Torvalds completed the first version of Git, an open-source version control system. Unlike typical centralized systems, Git is based on a distributed model. It is ...