AUSTIN, Texas — Emerson, a global software and engineering company, has released a new version of its DeltaV™ distributed control system (DCS). Version 15 of the DeltaV DCS helps plants digitally ...

Development projects require a team of developers all working on the same code at the same time. With this level of collaboration comes the risk of something going ...

We've watched many of our favorite open source libraries migrate from Google Code hosting to BitBucket and GitHub lately. The main reason is that most of the projects wanted to move from centralized ...

When I wrote last month about the state of Linux file synchronization, I argued that most native Linux solutions are too complex or don't provide a sufficiently seamless user experience. Some ...

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 ...

Each of the "version" folders, contains an Ant script which pulls the source from that project and version, pulls projects it depends on into the corresponding place in the hierarchy, builds them, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Branch management is the most difficult part of distributed version control system (DVCS) management. How developers separate the code they write for feature enhancements from hotfixes or public ...