Version Control

Step by step installation for git and PuTTY usage on Windows. Deals with common permission denied error due to tricky setup of various SSH keys.

Braid, formerly known as giston, is a simple tool to help track git and svn vendor branches in a git repository.

It’s similar to piston but it’s for git.

Main home for git.

Official home page for Mercurial source code control system.

Git is a distributed source-code control system that is gaining popularity as an alternative to Subversion.

Subversion is the most widely used version control system in the Ruby on Rails world. It is an open-source project itself, and is used by many open source projects.

Git is an open-source version control system that does not use a central repository, but rather has each developer maintain their own repository. It is currently used for Linux OS development (Git itself was originally written by Linus Torvalds) and is gaining ground among the Ruby on Rails community.

Allows you to keep a copy of an external project in your subversion repository, allowing you to make changes if needed, and merge in new versions from the external project.

Darcs is a free, open source source code management system.

CollabNet provides commercial support and training for the open-source Subversion version control system. You can download the software from their site for free.

The official book about Subversion, available free online. You can also buy it as a printed book.

Free reference manual for Mercurial.

GitHub is being used by Rails, Merb, RSpec, Prototype, and Scriptaculous, among many other projects.

Hosted service for Subversion and bug/issue tracking. Free plans for single developers, paid plans for multiple developers and multiple projects.

Commercial Subversion hosting.