# awesome-vcs [![Awesome](https://cdn.rawgit.com/sindresorhus/awesome/d7305f38d29fed78fa85652e3a63e154dd8e8829/media/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)

![version-control-everything](http://i.imgur.com/P0aDBIT.jpg)

A curated list of awesome version control libraries.

I like to keep everything under version control. This is a list of utilities that allow you to do that. Tools that help you keep data in plain-text (and version control yourselves) are permitted.

**Note**: \* denotes that the linked item is not a library or tool, but an article or blog post.

## DNS

 - [clouddns](https://github.com/jhawthorn/clouddns) (Cloudfront)
 - [namesync](https://github.com/dnerdy/namesync) (Cloudflare)
 - [Terraform](https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/) has providers for CloudFlare, UltraDNS, and PowerDNS

## Configuration

- [etckeeper](https://github.com/joeyh/etckeeper)
- [NixOS](https://nixos.org/) is a completely declarative OS that uses `nix`, the purely functional package manager

## Terraform

Terraform lets you manage a lot of things in version control, including:

- Database Provisioning for [MySQL](https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/mysql/index.html), [CouchDB](https://github.com/nicolai86/terraform-provider-couchdb), [InfluxDB](https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/influxdb/index.html), and [PostgreSQL](https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/postgresql/index.html).
- DNS Setup for [PowerDNS](https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/powerdns/index.html), [UltraDNS](https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/ultradns/index.html), DNSimple, DNSMadeEasy, and DNS updates over RFC 2136.
- Cloud Providers:
    + AliCloud
    + AWS
    + Azure
    + Google Cloud
    + Oracle Public Cloud
    + VMWare VSphere
    + DigitalOcean
    + Heroku
    + OpenStack
    + OVH
    + Scaleway
    + 1&1
    + and many more... See https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/type/cloud-index.html
- InfraStructure
    + Chef
    + Consul
    + Docker
    + Kubernetes
    + Nomad
    + RabbitMQ
    + Rancher
    + Vault
+ Version Control
    * BitBucket
    * GitHub
    * GitLab

And a lot more. A full list of providers is at <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/index.html>, and you can find community providers at <https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/type/community-index.html>

## Passwords

- *[Question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/559611/password-storage-in-source-control) on StackOverflow
- *John Resig's [blog post](http://ejohn.org/blog/keeping-passwords-in-source-control/)
- [pass](http://www.passwordstore.org/) - Standard unix password manager (encrypt, then commit).
- [ansible-vault](https://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_vault.html) - Encrypted storage for ansible.
- [sops](https://github.com/mozilla/sops) - Encrypts files for git.
## Dotfiles

- *[dotfiles.github.io](https://dotfiles.github.io/) - List of various dotfile resources, curated by github
- *[Arch Wiki Guide](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dotfiles#Version_control) on using version control for dotfiles
- [gnu stow](http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/)

## Editors

- *[http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2012/03/12/putting-your-vim-files-under-version-control/](putting-your-vim-files-under-version-control)
- [Editorconfig](http://editorconfig.org/) - Keep your coding styles in a .editorconfig file.

## Media

- [Git Large File Storage](https://git-lfs.github.com/) - Replaces large fileswith text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server. Maintained by github

## Encrypted Storage

- *[HN Thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8264496) for blackbox, with various alternatives suggested
- [git-crypt](https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/) - git-crypt enables transparent encryption and decryption of files in a git repository
- *[Blog post](http://dsernst.com/2015/06/09/git-crypt-is-git--encryption/) on git-crypt
- [transcrypt](https://github.com/elasticdog/transcrypt) - transparently encrypt files within a git repository
- [blackbox](https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox) - use decryption keys per user, meaning that there is no single shared password

## Designers

- [pixelapse](https://www.pixelapse.com/) - Visual version control and collaboration workflow
- *[Adobe Version Cue](http://sixrevisions.com/project-management/the-ultimate-guide-to-version-control-for-designers/) - Blog post explaining version control to designers
- [kactus.io](https://kactus.io/) - Version control for designers (Sketch+Git for now)

## Music

- [lilypond](http://www.lilypond.org/features.html) - version control for sheet music. Think Latex for sheet music
- [tunemachine](https://github.com/jez/tunemachine) - Version control for spotify playlists.

## Database

- *Jeff Atwood's [blog post](http://blog.codinghorror.com/get-your-database-under-version-control/)

### Database Schema

- [flyway](https://flywaydb.org/) - Version control for your database.
- [MyBatis](http://www.mybatis.org/migrations/)
- [Liquibase](https://www.liquibase.org/) - Source Control for your database

## Backups

- [bup](https://github.com/bup/bup) - Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images)

## Writing

- [Draft](https://draftin.com/) - Easy version control and collaboration for writers.
- [Penflip](https://www.penflip.com/) - GitHub for *collaborative* writers.
- [GitBook](https://www.gitbook.com/) - Book publishing platform based on git and markdown.

## Todo

- [todo.txt](http://todotxt.com/) - Pretty well known text file format with applications on many platforms.
- *[Todo list in version control](http://urasaru.org/post/19414431348/getting-my-todo-list-under-version-control) - Based on using notational velocity and tracking it in git.

## Food

- [Fork the Cookbook](http://forkthecookbook.com/) - GitHub for recipes
- [diy.soylent](https://diy.soylent.com/) - Soylent recipes can be tracked and include changelogs. They can also be forked.

## Diagrams & Flowcharts

- [Web Sequence Diagrams](https://www.websequencediagrams.com/) - Generates imagess from your plain text descriptions. Has [an API](http://www.websequencediagrams.com/embedding.html) for plugin support, so you can embed easily.
- [Kanga Modelling](https://kangamodeling.codeplex.com/) - UML diagram generator in plain text. Written in .NET
- [yuml.me](http://yuml.me/) - Class UML diagrams, described in plain text, and easily embeddable.

## License

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