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A curated list of awesome Version control tools - clients, diffs etc.
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# Awesome VCS tools

A curated list of awesome Version control tools - clients, diffs etc.



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# Desktop clients



## Git



[Git](https://git-scm.com/) - most popular decentralized version control system.



### Docs



* [Git magic book](http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~blynn/gitmagic/) by Ben Lynn.

* [Pro Git book](https://git-scm.com/book) by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.

* [Git How to](https://githowto.com/) - a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.

* [Git Cheatsheet](http://ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html) - Git Cheatsheet from NDP software.

* [Git Immersion](http://gitimmersion.com/) - is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.



### Clients



* [GitHub Desktop](https://desktop.github.com/) - official GitHub client.

* [SmartGit](http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/) - stand-alone or portable Git client.

* [TortoiseGit](https://tortoisegit.org/) - Windows Explorer shell extension.

* [GitKraken](https://www.gitkraken.com)

* [Git Extensions](http://gitextensions.github.io/) - Windows Explorer extension.

* [Legit](http://www.git-legit.org/) - command-line interface for Git, optimized for workflow simplicity.



### Client extensions



* [Turbo Git](https://github.com/labs-js/turbo-git) - commit convention support.

* [Magit](https://github.com/magit/magit) - A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.



### GitHub extensions



* [Renders TeXy Math for Github readme and commit](https://github.com/leegao/readme2tex).



### Behind GitHub



* [GitHub Engineering - The Blog of the GitHub Engineering Team](https://githubengineering.com).

* http://githut.info/ - GitHub language statistics

* [Git.io](https://git.io/) - GitHub links shortened

* [GitHub Archive](https://www.githubarchive.org/) - GitHub statistics



### Mods



* [Git Virtual File System](https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs), and [and some back story](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-git-and-some-back-story/)



### Extras



`gitignore` is a rules for Git working copy.

* [github/gitignore](https://github.com/github/gitignore) - a collection of .gitignore templates

* [gitignore.io](https://www.gitignore.io/) - create useful .gitignore Files For Your Project



## SVN



[SVN](http://subversion.apache.org/) - popular centralized version control system.



### Docs



* [SVN Red book](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/) - you should to start here.



### Clients



* [TortoiseSVN](https://tortoisesvn.net/)  - Windows Explorer shell extension

* [Version Control for engineers](http://soft.postpdm.com/)



## Mercurial



* [SmartHG](http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/) - stand-alone or portable Git client

* [TortoiseHg](http://tortoisehg.bitbucket.org/) - Windows Explorer shell extension



# Stand-alone diff tools



## Text diff



* KDiff https://sourceforge.net/projects/kdiff3

* WinDiff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDiff

* [WinMerge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/winmerge) - compare and merge text files

* ccdiff https://sourceforge.net/projects/ccdiff

* DiffEngineX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiffEngineX

* Diff-Text https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diff-Text

* Pretty Diff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Diff

* ExamDiff http://www.prestosoft.com/ps.asp?page=edp_examdiff

* Compare It! http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3.htm

* Diffuse https://sourceforge.net/projects/diffuse

* N++ https://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare

* Araxis merge http://www.araxis.com/merge/

* DiffMerge http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/    

* Perforce Visual Merge https://www.perforce.com/product/components/perforce-visual-merge-and-diff-tools

* SemanticMerge https://www.semanticmerge.com/index.html

* DiffPlug https://www.diffplug.com/

* [xxdiff](http://furius.ca/xxdiff/)

* [Meld](http://meldmerge.org/)



## Image and CAD file diff



* Perceptual Image Diff https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdiff/

* Beyond Compare http://www.scootersoftware.com/



* Fast File Diff (see AutoDesk Forum topic https://apps.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/HelpDoc?appId=4961723067758954084&appLang=en&os=Win32_64#contactinfo)

* CAD Diff http://soft.postpdm.com/cad_diff.html



## Special Diff



* [nbdime](https://github.com/jupyter/nbdime) - diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks



# Code hosting



* https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev#source-code-repos



## Self-hosting



### Git



* [Gitea](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea)

* [GitLab](https://about.gitlab.com/)

  * [How to Setup GitLab: A Self Hosted GitHub](https://scotch.io/tutorials/how-to-setup-gitlab-a-self-hosted-github)

* [Gogs.io](https://gogs.io/) - cross-platform  self-hosted Git service



### SVN



* [Visual SVN Server](https://www.visualsvn.com/server/)



# Contributing



Just fork and send a pull request with your awesome Version control tools - clients, diffs etc.