Source Management Tools

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

Overview

 * IBM has an excellent overview of available source management tools at: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vercon/
 * There is a comparison of several different tools at: http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html

Quilt
http://www.shakthimaan.com/downloads/glv/quilt-tutorial/quilt-doc.pdf
 * Quilt Project home page: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt/
 * How To Survive With Many Patches (or) Introduction to Quilt is a good tutorial for using quilt
 * Quilt Introduction (online presentation)
 * Another tutorial, with sample files, is at:

GIT
GIT is the source code management tool used by many kernel developers.
 * GIT project home page: http://git.or.cz/