16
votes
What is a good newbie-friendly graphical Git client for Windows?
You may consider using GitKraken. Some features:
Free for non-commercial use
Cross-platform (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Multiple profile support
One-click undo & redo
Built-in merge tool
...
- 293
4
votes
What is an open-source alternative to the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA, etc.)?
That's simple - GitLab - i know you're looking at another direction, but if you think about it, GitLab has great implementation opportunities beyond building software. It has most of the features ...
4
votes
Version control system locally
Distributed version control systems such as Mercurial and Git allow you to create local repositories. These can either be on a local network or just within a single directory tree.
- 686
3
votes
Easy and simple GUI source version control on Windows
I've been using Subversion with the Tortoise SVN client on Windows for many years and find it very easy to use. The client is implemented as a Shell extension (on the context menu) and can be ...
- 1,159
3
votes
Mercurial GUI with support for evolve
TortoiseHg does have some integrated GUI support for evolve these days: the workbench shows obsolescence relationships and troubled revisions, and the "Strip" command becomes "Prune" when evolve is ...
- 131
3
votes
What is a good newbie-friendly graphical Git client for Windows?
I am surprised hardly anyone mentioned about Git Extensions. I am using it for many years and I find it more user friendly than Tortoise Git.
- 211
3
votes
Linux Filesystem which tracks changes?
gitfs should fit your needs:
tracks changes: Yes, in a git repo
mostly small files: Perfect. Huge files might be problematic, though.
Non-root users should not be able to modify the history/versions ...
- 18.9k
3
votes
Accepted
Video editor that works from plain-text files
AviSynth seems to be the tool that directly answers your needs on Windows. This is a completely script-based editing approach, with quite powerful instruments (built-in or as plug-ins) for reading, ...
- 201
2
votes
What is a good newbie-friendly graphical Git client for Windows?
Git Cola
crossplatform (Linux, Windows, OSX)
FOSS
GitKraken advertise itself as better that Git Cola
I use it as main git interface on Linux. Very easy to do everyday operations
Commit
Revert last ...
- 436
2
votes
Source version control software with GUI
This actually breaks down into two separate question parts:
Version Control Server: With access control, etc.
A Compatible Version Control Client: With a nice GUI
Server Side
One thing to consider ...
- 31.8k
2
votes
Document/assets versioning and lock software
I would advise you to store source code in Git (or another tool dedicated to source code) and manage your digital assets using real digital asset management (DAM) software like Alfresco or NemakiWare (...
- 19.5k
2
votes
Document/assets versioning and lock software
I would suggest taking a look at Mercurial:
Open Sourced & Gratis
Cross Platform
Fast
Distributed VCS like git
User friendly compared to git in my personal opinion especially for users less ...
- 31.8k
2
votes
Accepted
Server-Client Version Control Software for personal files
I would suggest taking a look at mercurial with the zipdoc extension.
Mercurial is a distributed version control system, like git but more user friendly, that is free, gratis & open source and ...
- 31.8k
2
votes
Tool to visualize merging and branching operations in TFVC
Bourgeon plugin for Visual Studio (2013 and 2015 only) has exactly what you are looking for.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=StefanLober.Bourgeon
https://marketplace.visualstudio....
- 21
2
votes
SQL Server database version control
Plain text files, in Git/Mercurial
Use your source code version control such as Git, as you mentioned, or Mercurial.
Track the creation, definition, and evolving changes as SQL scripts. These are ...
- 3,146
2
votes
Accepted
I am looking for Version Control for office documents
SVN is actually worth a shot. TortoiseSVN has facilities to diff Office files (at least, doc(x) and xls(x)), it looks like this:
Though there are easy to install SVN servers with GUI like VisualSVN, ...
- 146
2
votes
What is a good newbie-friendly graphical Git client for Windows?
I've just released Glint. The aim is to have a client that runs fast with a nice, simple, and intuitive UI whilst still having access to more powerful features.
Runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Free ...
- 141
2
votes
What is an appropriate versioning system for a Master's student doing data processing with MATLAB?
First off - Start using git now - right now even if it is only on a local repository so that you can learn by doing - but don't put it on Google Drive or other file shares as it can become corrupted ...
- 31.8k
2
votes
Why do so many wikis use version control systems such as Git to store their data?
IMO, a version control system (VCS) like Git allows the administrators of a wiki to easily revert any changes, mistakes, misinformation that may be introduced to the content. They are fast and, in the ...
- 206
2
votes
Accepted
Portable, free, cross-platform, GUI-based prose-friendly plain-text diff and merge tool?
PrettyDiff is CC0 licensed -
"Pretty Diff project, as of version 2.1.17 and all following versions
unless otherwise changed, is licensed with a Creative Commons 1.0
Universal license (CC0)."
...
- 2,498
2
votes
Portable, free, cross-platform, GUI-based prose-friendly plain-text diff and merge tool?
I use Diffuse. From the "About" page:
Diffuse is a small and simple text merge tool written in Python.
Diffuse should run on any POSIX operating system, including Mac OS X,
with the ...
- 3,060
2
votes
Git Client for Non-technical Users
GitKraken - see https://www.gitkraken.com/
Free for non-commercial use. Integrates with BitBucket, GitHub and more to make cloning new repos easy.
I wonder though, why don't you just use Google ...
- 206
2
votes
Accepted
Recommendations for version control software for NON-networked PCs that have to share/exchange work
Git is a very powerful tool that would work perfectly for what you need.
Where i work, our network is standalone and we have a git server that we all work off.
Using the drive as a master version ...
- 36
2
votes
Software with a database to lookup hashes of files
I see your goal.
Unfortunately there is no SHA-256 or SHA-512 checksum database out there for ALL the software created by the mankind.
What you can do is to run a command in PowerShell or Bash and ...
2
votes
Is it a good idea to use Git for document management of technical documentation?
You can use GIT for any files. I store code, images, notes, documentation, help files and even database schema, all in one place. Basically everything except the executable and the database. So a ...
- 1,356
1
vote
Version control system with clients config file, component designs, test documents, issue tracking, PM management
From the description plus your comments you are looking for server software to allow you to manage software projects as well as to provide source control. There are a number of solutions available but ...
- 31.8k
1
vote
What is an appropriate versioning system for a Master's student doing data processing with MATLAB?
Not exactly designed specifically for your use case, but Syncthing might be an option. It's designed for near continuous synchronization of data between nodes (with near-real-time syncing under some ...
- 1,116
1
vote
Accepted
Tool for convert bitbucket and github tracked issues into PDFs
You can achieve your requirements by using the following steps.
Get all the issue ids using the REST api of GitHub or Bitbucket.
GitHub: https://developer.github.com/v3/issues/
Bitbucket: https://...
- 76
1
vote
Is there a very simple version control tool that only uses a diff-based change log for a text file?
See page 167ff in https://www.amazon.com/Unix-Programming-Environment-Prentice-Hall-Software/dp/013937681X for 3 scripts that do rudimentary revision control (RC).
I have worked a little with gnu-...
- 196
1
vote
Report generating tool for Microsoft Word (team-based)
Have you considered Google Docs? Granted, you (and all your colleagues/collaborators would) would need a Google account but for what it's worth, I find it quite powerful. And, if I understand your ...
- 1,974
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible