Version Control
A version control (also called source-code control) system is an essential part of any sane software development environment. The most widely used system is Subversion, which uses a central repository. Git, a newcomer that is rapidly rising in popularity, uses a distributed repository.
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Cleanly Migrate Your Subversion Repository To a GIT Repository
Cleanly import your Subversion repository into Git with history and users intact. This becomes a one-way import and doesn’t rely on git-svn after you are done.
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Using Git and Subversion together (maintaining linkage) and the commands you will need.
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Subversion
A good introduction to use source code control in your daily development, focusing in particular on Subversion. Covers administrative and...
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Pragmatic Version Control Using Git
In-depth coverage of how to use git for version control. Currently available as a beta book from www.pragprog.com
List: $34.95 Amazon price: $23.07 Buy
Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS
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Documentation (5)
- Git - Fast Version Control System
Main home for git. - Braid
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.
- GitHub and PuTTY - permission denied (pubkey)
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. - Version Management with CVS
- Mercurial
Official home page for Mercurial source code control system.
Screencasts (4)
- Railscasts - Subversion on Rails
- Introduction to Subversion Screencast
- Git
Git is a distributed source-code control system that is gaining popularity as an alternative to Subversion. - Using Git to Manage and Deploy your Rails Apps
Software (6)
- Piston: Easy Vendor Branch Management
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. - subversion.tigris.org
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. - CollabNet Subversion
CollabNet provides commercial support and training for the open-source Subversion version control system. You can download the software from their site for free. - Git - Fast Version Control System
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. - CVS - Open Source Version Control
- darcs home page
Darcs is a free, open source source code management system.
e-Books (2)
- Distributed revision control with Mercurial
Free reference manual for Mercurial. - Version Control with Subversion
The official book about Subversion, available free online. You can also buy it as a printed book.
Hosted services (3)
- ProjectLocker
Commercial Subversion hosting. - Unfuddle: Free Subversion Hosting, Bug and Issue Tracking
Hosted service for Subversion and bug/issue tracking. Free plans for single developers, paid plans for multiple developers and multiple projects. - Secure Git hosting and collaborative development -- GitHub
GitHub is being used by Rails, Merb, RSpec, Prototype, and Scriptaculous, among many other projects.
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