Selecting a Source Control Management (SCM)

Source Control Management (SCM) is better known as revision control management. Redmine currently supports the following revision control systems: Subversion (SVN), Git, Mercurial, Bazaar, Darcs, and CVS.

As it has been mentioned, Redmine can use SCMs not just as source code readers. It can also associate a revision with issues (and have revisions listed on issue pages). It can close an issue automatically and/or change its done ratio when an appropriate commit is made to the repository. It allows us to use the Wiki syntax in commit messages. It also allows us to refer to a revision, a commit, or a file from any Wiki-syntax-powered content, which can be a Wiki page, an issue description, a project description, ...

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