Source Management Tools

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Here are some different source management tools commonly used with Linux:

Overview

Patch Management Tools

Quilt

To manage a grou of patches relative to a single source base, quilt is quite good.

http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/quilt-tutorial/quilt-doc.pdf

Other Patch management Tools

* Tim's patch management tools - diffinfo and friends - a more verbose diffstat, with splitting, joining and comparing of patches
* See also Diff And Patch Tricks

GIT

GIT is the source code management tool used by many kernel developers.