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Free eBook: “Git Magic” by Ben Lynn. Git is a version control Swiss army knife. A reliable versatile multipurpose revision control tool whose extraordinary flexibility makes it tricky to learn, let alone master.

“The Hudson Book” by Manfred Moser and Tim O’Brien is free to read online and you can download it in several ebook formats. This book covers Hudson, the most widely used open source Continuous Integration Server.

This is the free online version of the book “Mercurial: The Definitive Guide”. It was published in 2009 by O’Reilly Media. Mercurial is a fast, lightweight source control management system designed for easy and efficient handling of very large distributed projects.

You can read “Pro Git” by Scott Chacon, online for free. Git is the version control system developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.

This is a set of free, online chapters about using CVS (Concurrent Versions System) for collaboration and version control. It covers everything from CVS installation and basic concepts all the way to advanced usage and administration. It is intended for anyone who uses or plans to use CVS.

Free CVS book from O’Reilly Commons. Essential CVS is a complete and easy-to-follow reference that helps programmers and system administrators apply order to the task of managing large quantities of documents. The book covers basic concepts and usage of CVS, and features a comprehensive reference for CVS commands–including a handy Command Reference Card for quick, on-the-job checks.

This manual describes how to use CVS, a powerful version control system. CVS tracks changes to source code and documents, allowing previous versions to be recovered at any time.

This free online book explores some of the best practices that can be adopted while using CVS as the configuration management tool in your software projects. Concurrent Versions System (CVS) is an Open Source configuration management tool that is now being looked at seriously by many commercial organizations as a viable alternative to other commercial Software configuration management tools.

Version Control with SVK, a free book about SVK, a new version control system designed to supplant everything else out there. This book is written for computer-literate folk who want to use SVK to manage their data.

Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects is a practical, hands-on guide. Readers will learn how to use Subversion and how to effectively merge a version control system into their development process.