version control

Version control is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files.

- Stackoverflow.com Wiki

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What does SVN do better than git?

git svn version-control

Visualizing Git Concepts with D3

git d3.js version-control

This website is designed to help you understand some basic git concepts visually.

Git didn’t beat SVN, GitHub did.

git svn github version-control

For a little under a decade Git and SVN competed for market share in a fashion reminiscent of browser wars. As recently as 2010, there are forum discussions that perhaps Git and SVN were not competitive — that the two were best in class products of two different breeds (distributed and centralized version control), and that companies would likely support both. It’s clear that Git won hearts and minds. But why?