Awesome VCS tools

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

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Desktop clients

Git

Git - most popular decentralized version control system.

Docs

Git magic book by Ben Lynn.
Pro Git book by Scott Chacon and Ben Straub.
Git How to - a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.
Git Cheatsheet - Git Cheatsheet from NDP software.
Git Immersion - is a guided tour that walks through the fundamentals of Git.

Clients

GitHub Desktop - official GitHub client.
SmartGit - stand-alone or portable Git client.
TortoiseGit - Windows Explorer shell extension.
GitKraken
Git Extensions - Windows Explorer extension.
Legit - command-line interface for Git, optimized for workflow simplicity.

Client extensions

Turbo Git - commit convention support.
Magit - A Git Porcelain inside Emacs.

GitHub extensions

Renders TeXy Math for Github readme and commit.

Behind GitHub

GitHub Engineering - The Blog of the GitHub Engineering Team.
http://githut.info/ - GitHub language statistics
Git.io - GitHub links shortened
GitHub Archive - GitHub statistics

Mods

Git Virtual File System, and and some back story

Extras

gitignore is a rules for Git working copy.

github/gitignore - a collection of .gitignore templates
gitignore.io - create useful .gitignore Files For Your Project

SVN

SVN - popular centralized version control system.

Docs

SVN Red book - you should to start here.

Clients

TortoiseSVN - Windows Explorer shell extension
Version Control for engineers

Mercurial

SmartHG - stand-alone or portable Git client
TortoiseHg - Windows Explorer shell extension

Stand-alone diff tools

Text diff

KDiff https://sourceforge.net/projects/kdiff3
WinDiff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDiff
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
Meld

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 - diffing and merging of Jupyter notebooks

Code hosting

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

Self-hosting

Git

Gitea
GitLab
- How to Setup GitLab: A Self Hosted GitHub
Gogs.io - cross-platform self-hosted Git service

SVN

Visual SVN Server

Contributing

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