MKS Source

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MKS Source (formerly known as MKS Source Integrity) is a commercial, proprietary Revision Control (RC) system. It is developed by MKS Inc., which was founded in 1984.

The MKS Source system is based on a client/server model with the server managing the collection of source versions in one or more projects. The servers operate in a Federated Server Architecture and run on Linux, Unix, Mac OS X, or Microsoft Windows operating systems.

The client side provides graphical and command line tools for a number of operating systems. Also available is a suite of plugins that integrate with various programming IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.) and third party applications.^[1]

Other features of the system include support for reporting (i.e., notifying users when a file has changed), branching and merging, database checkpoints, and defect tracking through MKS Integrity.