{"id":328,"date":"2010-06-09T20:12:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T20:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/?p=328"},"modified":"2017-06-19T17:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T17:27:27","slug":"swarthmores-software-revision-control-system-available-to-faculty-staff-and-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2010\/06\/09\/swarthmores-software-revision-control-system-available-to-faculty-staff-and-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Swarthmore&#8217;s Software Revision Control System available to Faculty, Staff, and Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you working on a project that involves software development? \u00a0You may be interested in Swarthmore&#8217;s software revision control system. \u00a0Called <a href=\"http:\/\/gforge.swarthmore.edu\">gForge<\/a>, this service is now available to the Swarthmore community.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest reason to use gForge is its revision control features. \u00a0It provides a <a href=\"http:\/\/svnbook.red-bean.com\/en\/1.5\/svn.intro.whatis.html\">Subversion (SVN) repository<\/a> for each project that you can use to control the revision levels of your software. \u00a0Instead of relying on renaming files to indicate versions, you and any collaborators can always have the latest version of your software handy while also keeping every revision from the very beginning of your project.<\/p>\n<p>gForge also provides a bug tracker, task manager, document manager, forums, mailing lists, and a wiki for your project. \u00a0It is easy to get started &#8211; you can log in with your network username and password and request that a new project be set up right from the front page.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more or to start using Swarthmore&#8217;s gForge, contact Andrew Ruether at\u00a0aruethe2@swarthmore.edu or x8254.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you working on a project that involves software development? \u00a0You may be interested in Swarthmore&#8217;s software revision control system. \u00a0Called gForge, this service is now available to the Swarthmore community. The biggest reason to use gForge is its revision control features. \u00a0It provides a Subversion (SVN) repository for each project that you can use to control the revision levels of your software. \u00a0Instead of relying on renaming files to indicate versions, you and any collaborators can always have the latest version of your software handy while also keeping every revision from the very beginning of your project. gForge also &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/2010\/06\/09\/swarthmores-software-revision-control-system-available-to-faculty-staff-and-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swarthmore&#8217;s Software Revision Control System available to Faculty, Staff, and Students<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,97,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff","category-software","category-students"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph2nPL-5i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/its\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}