When working in any application, we typically make changes of some kind. But what happens when we save a file after that? Basically, the old version of a file gets overwritten with a new one.

We take a deep dive into the benefits of version control and version control systems. Learn more about versioning. Version control, also known as source control, is the practice of tracking and ...

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 ...

You could say that the opposite of version control—from the perspective of internal software development—is chaos. If development teams don’t manage various ...

O'Reilly Media author and VP of Developer Experience for lakeFS, helping teams create cost-effective data systems and ML pipelines. Data is the backbone of every business organization today, and its ...

Effective Version Control is a cornerstone of successful software development. It allows you to precisely define and reproduce software versions, which is crucial for debugging, collaboration, and ...

What if the very tool you rely on every day—Git—was holding you back? For all its ubiquity, Git isn’t without flaws: rigid branching structures, frustrating rebases, and the occasional merge conflict ...