git and Mercurial, two open source distributed version control systems (DVCS), had the highest approval rates, over 95%. Subversion , an open source centralized VCS, also had a very good approval ...

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 ...

The developers at Codethink are designing a new Linux filesystem that … ...

Torvalds cites a change in attitudes as assisting with adoption of distributed version control and Git. “I think what has happened is that it took even kernel people a few years to get used to ...

Distributed version control systems (DVCS) are becoming very popular among open source software projects. A growing number of projects have migrated or are in the process of carrying out a ...

There are other advantages to distributed version control as well. But before you'll really understand them, you have to understand the conceptual differences between the two.