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awesome-vcs

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 (Cloudfront)
• namesync (Cloudflare)
• Terraform has providers for CloudFlare, UltraDNS, and PowerDNS

Configuration

• etckeeper
• NixOS 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, CouchDB, InfluxDB, and PostgreSQL.
• DNS Setup for PowerDNS, UltraDNS, 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 on StackOverflow
• *John Resig's blog post
• pass - Standard unix password manager (encrypt, then commit).
• ansible-vault - Encrypted storage for ansible.
• sops - Encrypts files for git.

Dotfiles

• *dotfiles.github.io - List of various dotfile resources, curated by github
• *Arch Wiki Guide on using version control for dotfiles
• gnu stow

Editors

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

Media

• Git Large File Storage - Replaces large fileswith text pointers inside Git, while storing the file contents on a remote server. Maintained by github

Encrypted Storage

• *HN Thread for blackbox, with various alternatives suggested
• git-crypt - git-crypt enables transparent encryption and decryption of files in a git repository
• *Blog post on git-crypt
• transcrypt - transparently encrypt files within a git repository
• blackbox - use decryption keys per user, meaning that there is no single shared password

Designers

• pixelapse - Visual version control and collaboration workflow
• *Adobe Version Cue - Blog post explaining version control to designers
• kactus.io - Version control for designers (Sketch+Git for now)

Music

• lilypond - version control for sheet music. Think Latex for sheet music
• tunemachine - Version control for spotify playlists.

Database

• *Jeff Atwood's blog post

Database Schema

• flyway - Version control for your database.
• MyBatis
• Liquibase - Source Control for your database

Backups

• 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 - Easy version control and collaboration for writers.
• Penflip - GitHub for collaborative writers.
• GitBook - Book publishing platform based on git and markdown.

Todo

• todo.txt - Pretty well known text file format with applications on many platforms.
• *Todo list in version control - Based on using notational velocity and tracking it in git.

Food

• Fork the Cookbook - GitHub for recipes
• diy.soylent - Soylent recipes can be tracked and include changelogs. They can also be forked.

Diagrams & Flowcharts

• Web Sequence Diagrams - Generates imagess from your plain text descriptions. Has an API for plugin support, so you can embed easily.
• Kanga Modelling - UML diagram generator in plain text. Written in .NET
• yuml.me - Class UML diagrams, described in plain text, and easily embeddable.

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