Tortoise may refer to one of the following:

• Tortoise, a large land-dwelling reptile protected by a shell
• TortoiseCVS, a GUI integrated CVS client for the Microsoft Windows platform
• TortoiseSVN, a GUI integrated Subversion client for the Microsoft Windows platform
• Tortoise (band), a US post-rock band formed in 1990
• Tortoise (tank), a British heavy assault gun
• Tortoise formation, a defensive formation employed in ancient and mediaeval warfare
• Tortoise, a derogatory name for the Ford Taurus automobile
• Tortoise, a popular brand of Turnout Motor for Model Railways
• Tortoises, a 1921 short volume of poetry by D H Lawrence containing poems later collected in Birds, Beasts and Flowers (1923).

This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... TortoiseCVS is a CVS tool for Microsoft Windows released under the GNU General Public License. ... The Concurrent Versions System (CVS), also known as the Concurrent Versioning System, is an open-source version control system invented and developed by Dick Grune in the 1980s. ... TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension. ... Subversion is a revision control system which allows computer software to be developed in an incremental and controlled fashion by a distributed group of programmers. ... Tortoise, an instrumental rock band, formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1990. ... The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords. ... The A39 Tortoise heavy assault tank was a British heavy tank design developed in World War II but never put into production. ... A century of Roman legionaires in testudo formation, as portrayed in the Rome: Total War computer game, copyright 2004 Creative Assembly and Activision In Ancient Roman warfare, the testudo or tortoise formation was a formation utilized commonly by the Roman Legions during battles, particularly sieges. ... The Ford Taurus is a mid-size, front wheel drive car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company in North America. ... A railroad switch is a mechanical installation enabling trains to be guided from one set of rail tracks (or tramway tracks) to another. ... This article needs cleanup. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... Birds, Beasts and Flowers is a collection of poetry by the English author D.H. Lawrence, first published in 1923. ...

Also see

• Hare (disambiguation), for Tortoise and Hare stories

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