Comparison of Open Source Tools for Source Control Management (SCM)
Wikipedia defines application lifecycle management (ALM) as "the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management." Source control management (SCM) tools are a key component of the ALM process, and developers today have many good open source options when it comes to selecting SCM tools.
We're hosting a webinar on April 28 in which we'll compare and contrast some of the most popular open source tools for SCM, including Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, and Subversion. Brad Reeves, Senior Content Engineer at OpenLogic, will examine the features included with popular open source SCM tools and discuss which tools best interface with other commonly used ALM applications.
Other topics covered to be covered this webinar include:
- Which open source SCM tools are best at branching, merging, and tagging
- Client/server vs. single repository SCM tools
- Peer-to-peer vs. distributed system SCM tools
- How the leading open source SCM tools compare to commercial alternatives
Whether you're evaluating open source SCM tools for use in your software engineering process or simply want to stay abreast of new trends, please be sure to join us on Tuesday, April 28 at 11:00 Pacific / 2:00 Eastern.
[...] including Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, and Subversion. The webinar is on April 28th – check it out here. If you are looking at new tools or want to keep abreast of the latest distributed tools it will be [...]
I believe the acronym SCM stands for Software Configuration Management – not Source Control Management but to each their own.
Funny you should mention that — one of the things Brad discussed early in the webinar is the fact that “SCM” is an overused abbreviation. In addition to Source Control Management and Software Configuration Management, other uses include Supply Chain Management and Service Control Manager.