A programming discipline for tracking, storing and retrieving revisions of source code.
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svndumpfilter Multiple Versions
I have a few questions about the Subversion open source project. I know that there are multiple versions of svndumpfilter (2,3). What are the tradeoffs and benefits of each version? In other words, ...
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Third party libraries in an open-source C# project
I'm going to start an open source project from scratch, using git (via github) to manage the source. The project will be written in C# and will depend on at least two external libraries (more are ...
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How to avoid code duplication across unrelated projects [duplicate]
I'm a contractor at a large Telco where I'm usually working on several different projects at once.
The VCSs I use (mainly git and mercurial) tend to make me keep the code bases for unrelated ...
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Best way to structure a Git repository for Maven
I need some advice on how to structure our projects in Git. We use Java and Maven is our build tool. Maven kinda assumes all of your projects have a common ancestor eventually. Maven can also be a ...
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Private Repository Management for Potential Employers
I have some projects that I do not wish to be viewed publicly (some of them are school course work), but I want to show them to my potential employers. Ideally, I would be able to generate some ...
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Using gerrit (or similar tool) on a team where multiple devs work on a single feature
We have a team of roughly ~8 devs who regularly work on the same feature over the course of a 3 week sprint. It isn't quite pair programming, but in our current workflow devs regularly push up ...
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intellij idea system wide VCS ignored files [migrated]
I'm using intellij idea 12 on Ubuntu 13.04 with the ruby and git plugin, is there anyway to make IDE use the .gitignore file OR a way to make all new rails project have specific "ignore files" ...
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Who should support and maintain development infrastructure?
I am interested to know what other peoples' experiences are with managing development infrastructure are. I am talking about things like the build server, the central git repo etc etc. Any ...
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How to use source control in Data analysis?
I am currently in a Data analaysis job and I am using mainly SPSS (Statistics) and a rather unknown scripting language to make nice tables. My problem is, that there are multiple script files for both ...
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Feature branches, beta branches, and scrapped features
I've been thinking a lot about best practices regarding branching in distributed version control systems such as git an mercurial (the two dvcs's I have experience with and use on a daily basis).
The ...
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GitHub access to repo: only with URL? [closed]
I'm finishing my dissertation and want/need to provide the source code of some analysis scripts I've used. I did all the version control with git. Because I want to publish the results generated with ...
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So I'm a developing a workflow with vagrant+git…does this make sense?
Relevant Background Details
We've got two types of VMs (Utility Boxes & Web Servers) that developers need.
We are going to be using git for version control.
We have developers who have ...
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What is the preferred method for an application to get settings which should not be stored in version control?
Let's say an application I'm writing requires a password for something but I don't want that password to be saved in version control (so no hard-coding the password). What I've been doing is creating ...
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Service to prove authorship with trusted timestamp
This question is related with copyrights. The copyright is granted by default to the author of some code, however this requires to prove that some person is the "first" author of some piece of code. ...
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Manage version control with a central development server (LAMP)
I'm working in a small team with up to 5 (web)developers. Because our team is growing frequently and we ran into problems with multiple people working on the same code we decided to set up a VCS.
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Good Version Control Guidelines from a Development/Collaboration Perspective?
At our company we have started outsourcing some of our development.
This has worked somewhat well. However, we are having a hard time getting them to properly use version control. They are familiar ...
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how to stay efficient when a build is almost always broken
I work in a middle sized team which shares the same source code and while have a continues integration in place, but as all of us has to work in the same branch, the build is almost always broken.
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Responsibilities of Build Script and Build Server
I need some clarifications on the responsibilities of the Build Script and the Build Server.
I read several articles on the Net about continuous integration and builds. Including
The F5 Key Is Not ...
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Is it possible to integrate MS Project Server with SVN
We have been using Hosted SVN + Fogbugz for our source control and task/issue tracking. Our developers are very comfortable with SVN and we are hesitant to switch source control (e.g. TFS) providers ...
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How safe & trustworthy are hosting sites such as sourceforge, github or bitbucket for closed-source projects?
I am considering using sourceforge, bitbucket or github for managing source control for my business. I have open projects and I participate in open projects such as gcc. But I also have a business ...
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Distributed Issue Tracking
Distributed issue tracking seems like a belting idea to me, but it has never really taken off in a big way. Is there a good reason for that?
I am aware of:
bugz everywhere
too complex to set up
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Do I check generated code in to source control or not? [duplicate]
I'm developing a .Net application that uses google protocol buffers. Historically the application used the approach, advocated by the protobuf-net team, of decorating the classes with attributes ...
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Should a new class refactored out of an existing one have history pointing back to it's progenitor
If I split one class into two classes should both classes have history in source control tracing back to the original class that contained both; or should the new class be added as a new file without ...
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How to deal with undesired commits that break long-running release builds?
We ran into an unfortunate situation at work recently and I've been wondering what we can do to avoid similar problems in the future.
We make embedded systems. The FPGA code is in one SVN repository ...
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Kiln - Mercurial and Git limitation [closed]
According to this blog post: Kiln now supports repositories accessible from both Git and Mercurial
We decided that the awesome way would be to make Kiln fully bilingual.
It stores every repo in ...
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Source control system for binary files
At work we have a legacy system written in Visual FoxPRO.
Everything in foxpro is a table, even forms, so basically if you open a form file with a text editor you don't learn much.
Does anyone know ...
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Is it a good idea to create multiple heads with Mercurial? [closed]
I just made a commit that I want to reverse, but I want to keep the bad commit in history. So, I hg update to the previous (good) commit. Then I keep working.
This leaves me with a new head: the ...
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Contributor's actions after rejected pull request
Imagine, there is an open-source project with a Maintainer and a Contributor. Both of them have theirs repos exported to some repository hosting (github, bitbucket, sourceforge --- whatever, but they ...
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Is git-flow in the spirit of git? [closed]
The question is pretty self-explanatory. I've had some experience with git-flow, and not much more true experience with plain git before that. (I was using it more as a backup-provider.) I'm ...
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Is it a good practice to have a remote branch for each developer?
Is it considered a good practice to have a remote branch for each individual developer in the project?
We're using Git with the following branches:
master
release
develop
If each developer had ...
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Has anyone used git as a runtime datastore in their application? [closed]
I used to work on a document workflow system, and it basically implemented a half-baked version control system for documents; using a database for versioning information and a filestore for the files. ...
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System for checking code comments relevance [closed]
When I write comments for auto generated documentation it can become irrelevant after a few changes of the method. Do we have any system to automatically check, prevent such situation and warn ...
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Feasibility of continuous delivery with a mixture of development platforms
What are the major obstacles (and potential solutions, if known) for implementing "continuous delivery" software development when an application relies on varied programming languages or modules... ...
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Can my GitHub and SourceForge account share the same repository?
I like that SourceForge can also let people browse your code using Git. But, before I even set up the project on SourceForge, I had a GitHub repository for it. Now that I have created my SourceForge ...
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If I own an open source project why would I not host it on Github? [closed]
I've noticed that one rather well-known open source project (which I won't name so that noone focuses too much on that specific project) offers sources for download as a .zip via FTP instead of having ...
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Version control: Dealing with incomplete/broken code
It seems to be a generally accepted good practice not to push invalid, broken, or incomplete code. But one of the huge advantages of version control systems is that it gives you a remote place for ...
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When was source control invented?
I'm aware of many version control systems: CVS, SVN, TFS etc...
I've googled for the very first "revision control/version control system" and seen various conflicting answers.
When was source ...
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Git: rebasing on top of a refactor that affects the target rebase branch
Let's say I have a feature (topic) branch that I keep rebased on top of my development branch. During the course of the project (before merging in my feature branch), I decide that I need to make a ...
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Is Using Locking/Unlocking in Version Control an Anti-Pattern?
Recently I've started using Git at work. Previously I've only ever used VSS (which has some problems) and so far, Git is orders of magnitude better.
The key differences here is that Git is ...
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How to maintain lots of different variations for deployment, using Git for development
Although there are many similar questions here regarding using GIT for maintaining different versions, none seem to answer my specific case.
I'm OK with how to use GIT to do my development, using ...
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How to manage releases with multiple features at different states?
We have a branching structure of:
multiple dev branches for each major new feature
Main branch, merged into from a dev branch once a feature is ready for testing
Release branch, merged into from ...
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How should non-functional changes be committed?
I'm working a small-to-medium legacy codebase and when working on a ticket I will come across code that should be cleaned-up or that I need to clean-up just to be able to understand the follow of the ...
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Why does git allow you to “change history”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When should the VCS history of a project be deleted?
I am experienced using svn and recently started learning git. I was quite shocked to learn that git has features ...
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Can branching ever be considered a bad practice? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
To branch or not to branch?
A co-worker is against branching. I use branching all the time. I put the team onto a basic 3 branch system. I create my own feature ...
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Functional testing before code checkin
I am working on a project with legacy code where it does not have much code coverage. One of the idea to improve that is to enforce a rule that each code check-in must have test, not only test but ...
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Should your best programmers have to check everyone else's code into source control?
One of the differences between svn and git is the ability to control access to the repository. It's hard to compare the two because there is a difference of perspective about who should be allowed to ...
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When should the VCS history of a project be deleted?
I just refactored my project's entire codebase. So much so that even though it uses most of the same code base, things work in a radically different way. If the old version was 1.0, the new one would ...
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Advice: Developing two projects where one is an extension of the other
The Two Projects
I work at a pretty small software company, and I'm currently in a situation where I'm at the end of development for "Project A", about to start development for "Project B". Project B ...
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Bug / issue tracker integration with bazaar
I am currently working on a project, and I am using bazaar - installed on my server - to do version control. I use the eclipse plugin and bazaar explorer to interact with bazaar repository, but I want ...
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Git-friendly spreadsheet format?
We're trying to move our project documentation process from Google Documents to a set of self-hosted Git repositories.
Text documents are Git-friendly enough, since we usually do not need any fancy ...
