Managing and Protecting the Source Code. Using a version control system ensures that programmers always have all the versions of your source code at your disposal.

What's source code control? In ye olde days, you may have struggled with Visual SourceSafe: Microsoft's Source Destruction System or systems like it. There was a central code repository, you'd wait ...

In today’s code development environment, projects often span multiple platforms, languages, and even geographical boundaries. Because of the many challenges of managing people throughout the ...

To understand Git and the concept of version control, looking at version control from an historical perspective is helpful. There have been three generations of version control software. The first ...

David Petersheim advocates using source code control when you need to recreate work. He offers details on these functions of source code control: concurrent updates, history, source code archives ...

In today’s code development environment, projects often span multiple platforms, languages, and even geographical boundaries. Because of the many challenges of managing people throughout the ...

Database developer changes a report in this huge data warehouse, and it passes QA testing and goes live -- so why has a different report stopped working the next day?