How to: Version control
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Software versioning and revision control.

- [Darcs](https://darcs.net/) - Cross-platform version control system, like git, mercurial or svn but with a very different approach: focus on changes rather than snapshots. ([Source Code](https://darcs.net/releases/)) `GPL-2.0` `Haskell`
- [Fossil](https://www.fossil-scm.org/) - Distributed version control with built-in wiki and bug tracking. ([Source Code](https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/dir?ci=trunk)) `BSD-2-Clause` `C`
- [Git](https://git-scm.com/) - Distributed revision control and source code management (SCM) with an emphasis on speed. ([Source Code](https://github.com/git/git)) `GPL-2.0` `C`
- [Mercurial](https://www.mercurial-scm.org/) - Distributed source control management tool. ([Source Code](https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/file/tip)) `GPL-2.0` `Python/C/Rust`
- [Subversion](https://subversion.apache.org/) - Client-server revision control system. ([Source Code](https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/)) `Apache-2.0` `C`