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Version Control Software Tools

2 October 2006

Visual Source Safe
The most popular version control tool from Microsoft.

IBM Rational ClearCase
The high-end version control tool as part of Rational Suite Enterprise. Many powerful features such as creating version tree and view tag.

CVS
http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/
CVS - Concurrent Versions System is a version control system, an important component of Source Configuration Management (SCM). Using it, you can record the history of sources files, and documents. It fills a similar role to the free software RCS, PRCS, and Aegis packages.

WinCVS
http://www.wincvs.org/
WinCVS is a free Windows-based GUI front-end for CVS written in C++ and distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).

Subversion
http://subversion.tigris.org/
The goal of the Subversion project is to build a version control system that is a compelling replacement for CVS in the open source community. The software is released under an Apache/BSD-style open source license.

Aaegis
http://aegis.sourceforge.net/
Aegis is a transaction-based software configuration management system. It provides a framework within which a team of developers may work on many changes to a program independently, and Aegis coordinates integrating these changes back into the master source of the program, with as little disruption as possible.

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