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 ...

Switching from Google Docs to Zettlr finally gave me control over drafts, versions, and long-form writing.

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 ...

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 ...

Here at ProfHacker we’ve written a lot about backups, but never about version control. In fact, when I recently wrote “A Few Ways to Back Up Your Website”, I ...

We've all been told that we should backup our work when using a computer. Everyone accepts that we must keep multiple copies of important files, and most businesses automate the process. When it comes ...

If you’re a Web developer, even minor errors — a simple typo in your code, for example — can create major problems. But you can easily track down and reverse such mistakes by setting up ...

I wasn't quite sure this is the correct subforum to ask this in, but since the software I am looking for is going to be run on a *NIX (FreeBSD) server, I thought I should start by asking here. I think ...