The OS X command line developer tools include an old version of the Git source code management system that exposes Mac users to remote code execution attacks. The Git client allows developers to ...

Microsoft announced on January 30 its roadmap for adding support for Git to its Visual Studio development-tool suite and Team Foundation app-lifecycle-management technologies. Cue flying pigs -- or ...

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Microsoft today announced that virtually all of its engineers now use the Git version control system to develop its Windows operating system. The Windows Git repository includes about 3.5 million ...

The latest version of Linus Torvalds' Git version-control system brings experimental support for the SHA-256 cryptographic hash, moving it away from its reliance on the less safe SHA-1. Google and ...

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 ...

I’ve been a Subversion (SVN) user going on 9 years now. It’s been a great solution for source control throughout my career and I’ve implemented it at each stop along the way. It’s easy, reliable, and ...

The road to product release is forked, twisted, and winding — anything but straight. That’s because modern product development is increasingly multidisciplinary, rapid, iterative, and geographically ...

Apple has released a new version of its Xcode development tool in order to patch two critical vulnerabilities in the Git source code management client. The Git vulnerabilities, CVE‑2016‑2324 and ...