The main reason is that most of the projects wanted to move from centralized version control like Subversion (used by Google Code) to distributed version control systems like Mercurial (BitBucket ...

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 ...

Merging and branching in Subversion Branching and merging are important elements of any version control system, and play a crucial part in any software development process.

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 ...

Git, the open source distributed software version control system pioneered by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in 2005, is now gaining real momentum with developers. But don’t count out rivals like ...

Of course, if you're a programmer, you've probably already solved that problem in your development activities by using a version control system like CVS or Subversion.

Get three programmers into a discussion about which code versioning system they prefer, and you’re guaranteed to end up with some ruffled feathers. I mean, the choice is obvious, right? The ...

Organizations that write any type of code usually use a source code version control system (VCS) such as Git (and its commercial variants) or Apache Subversion.

Google has announced that it will be supporting Mercurial alongside its existing support for Subversion. Distributed version control systems (DVCS) are becoming increasingly popular in the open ...