A programming discipline for tracking, storing and retrieving revisions of source code.
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Why are developer commit statistics harmful?
I have long believed (and heard from others) that keeping track of commit statistics, such as how many commits each developer makes per day, is harmful to the development process. The reason seems ...
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How do I Integrate Production Database Hot Fixes into Shared Database Development model?
We are using SQL Source Control 3, SQL Compare, SQL Data Compare from RedGate, Mercurial repositories, TeamCity and a set of 4 environments including production.
I am working on getting us to a ...
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What fast, free SVN repository alternatives to Google Code are there for open-source projects?
I am using Google Code for my project which is almost a hobby project under the MIT license. The problem is, Google Code is too slow from my area.
So I am looking for alternative repositories. Can ...
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Choosing the right branching strategy for releases
Starting with a new dev team on a new project and we have to define our Branching strategy for our source repository (e.g. Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010). We've run into a sticky discussion ...
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SVN: Working with branches using the same working copy
We've just moved to SVN from CVS. We have a small team and everyone checks in code on the trunk and we have never ever used branches for development.
We each have directories on a remote dev server ...
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How to apply DRY to files shared by repositories?
I've got a few files which are used in several of my repos:
functions.sh, shell library to for example print a colored warning/error message or the documentation of a script file.
Makefile; a ...
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What is a realistic way to handle customer-specific software patches?
I'm trying to gather effective ways that others have solved the following problem. At work we've been forced to release a software patch (to be installed on end-user systems) that we only want ...
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Is 'process debt' a term people work with
As a result of a retrospective we were uncovering worse ways of developing
software. We had a idea we though was great and tried it. We stayed with it during the development of a major update which ...
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Source control workflow for managing a software platform
I'm in charge of a software platform, written in C, that is used to provide a variety of projects to clients. I am trying to improve the workflow for people using this platform, and looking at ...
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Version Control based on portable storage?
I develop personal projects on two machines without use of a shared server or a network connection between the two.
Do any common version control systems reliably support use of portable storage ...
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Why is local copy writable by default in SVN, but readonly in Perforce/TFS?
I have some experience with Perforce, SVN, and TFS. For SVN, The source files were by default writable after synchronization. However, they were readonly for Perforce, as well as TFS if memory served ...
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What is the best way to handle product versioning and branching of long term projects?
In a general sense, for long term projects that may have multiple releases during the products life cycle and require support of previous products, what is the best way to handle product versions and ...
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Best Version Control Habits For Solo Developer?
I'm a sole developer at my work and while I understand the benefits of VCS; I find it hard to stick to good practices. At the moment I'm using git to develop mostly web apps (which will never be open ...
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Version Control with SQL Server
I'm starting a new project and using SVN (with Tortoise) as my Version Control System. I was wondering if it was possible to also maintain a SQL Server Database using the same system.
I'd want to ...
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cost trade-offs for deploying changes to prod, stored procs vs. LINQ
Some context for thisi question: it is not about development time over the entire iteration of development, but just the stage of deploying changes from dev to prod environment. "LINQ" here really ...
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Should unit tests be stored in the repository?
I'm a growing programmer who's finally putting unit testing into practice for a library that I'm storing on GitHub.
It occurred to me that I might include the test suites in the repo, but as I look ...
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Is it good practice to store framework runtimes under source control?
I know a lot of software shops keep binaries under source control. However, our shop had come to store entire frameworks on the repository: DirectX runtime, CUDA, nVidia Optix, whatever.
It is said ...
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version control workflow for environment with shared code
I work at a company that is looking into "upgrading" our version control system. We have about 200 websites that operate in their own directories. However, all of these websites use the same shared ...
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Git workflow for multiple teams
We are going to start using Git (not using it yet), and I want to define the workflow.
We have 4 teams at 4 different global locations, developing together the same product. Each team owns a part of ...
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Version control programs for XML-files - merge/diff tool
My programming environment / language (gamemaker) gives the source files as "XML-files". Each resource has its own XML file. Where the properties (code is a property) are stored inside xml tags.
Is ...
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What is the recommended way to separate current development from maintenance development in version control software?
I have some software application managed using Git. I just released a new version 2.x which I plan to maintain on the long term (bug fixes mostly). In the meantime, I would like to start working on ...
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svn - when will I see conflicts?
I am just starting a new position and using svn rather than git (my favorite).
With svn if there are any conflicts will I see them after an svn update or after an (attempt) to svn commit?
In other ...
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Using SVN poorly - is Mercurial the answer?
At work we use SVN, but in name only. We don't branch or merge. We keep two copies of the repository, one serving as the "tag" branch that gets copied when we do a deployment and kept for bug fixes ...
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Strategy to use version control on a modular system
Let's suppose (for simplicity) that we have an application featuring client and server; is there a better idea to use one repository for both or a pair of separate repositories?
Mixing them will ...
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confusion between SVN and code backup by month/date/time whenever i make major or important update to the code
I am working on two different project simultaneously where whenever the changes are made we use
Tortoise SVN for project A
Backed up by folder for Project B (this is done by me on my system)
I ...
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Ways of marking changes being made to a file
I am looking for a lightweight way to notate changes made to a file. The obvious answer to this is a version control system. But this is more robust than necessary for what I would like to do. All I ...
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Trade-offs of local vs remote development workflows for a web development team
We currently have SVN setup on a remote development server. Developers SSH into the server and develops on their sandbox environment on the server. Each one has a virtual host pointed to their sandbox ...
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What's the best way to handle multiple simultaneous “streams” of development in version control?
My department is planning on working on our next several releases (spanning a year) simultaneously. The powers that be are advocating we support this by refactoring all affected code into classes ...
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Alternatives to Professional Version Control
We're teaming up with some non programmers (writers) who need to contribute to one of our projects.
Now they just don't like the idea of using Git (or anything for that matter) for version ...
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Android application Database Framework [closed]
When creating mobile (specially Android) applications, I usually come to touch with similar patterns of working with data.
Usually, I need to fetch some remote data (covered by an authorization ...
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Bug tracker that integrates with source control
I thought this would be easy, but its been sort of a disaster. I want to set up a bug tracker that integrates with source control. At a minimum, when you commit to source control, it should notify ...
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Boss is afraid to use a version control system for new project, should I anyway?
See Superior refusing to use subversion
My question is similar, but here are the main differences in my scenario:
We are starting a new project from scratch, using PHP and web tech. There would be ...
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A Project's Initial Commit to Source Control
I'm probably over-thinking this and it might not matter in the scope of things, but I'm wondering how people build up initial versions of their projects in source control? I'm talking about when you ...
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What should I put in comments while commiting to the Source Control?
I am a lone developer and maintain a SVN server for source control. So far, I haven't followed anything specific while committing my changes.
I was just reviewing my previous commits, and couldn't ...
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How can I convince cowboy programmers to use source control?
UPDATE
I work on a small team of devs, 4 guys. They have all used source control. Most of them can't stand source control and instead choose not to use it. I strongly believe source control is a ...
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Workflow of sharing code for small teams
Problem is, we have developed a small CMS, that is different per implementation (currently).
Of course development of this is never complete. Sometimes, we are working on more than one project that ...
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Local versioning system especially designed for documents
I have to work on some docs, I need a software that can trace all the modifications that I will make to a specific file or project (group of files): is there something like that?
The important thing ...
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Is reference to bug/issue in commit message considered good practice?
I'm working on a project where we have the source control set up to automatically write notes in the bug tracker. We simply write the bug issue ID in the commit message and the commit message is added ...
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What version control system can manage all aspects?
A few months ago I dug into Subversion and GIT and was disappointed. They handle SOURCE CODE fine but not other aspects. For example, a web site under version control needs to manage file/directory ...
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Is there a version control system that can show changes to a specific method or function?
Sometimes it would be nice to be able to say something like:
(git|svn|hg|etc) diff Foo.c:main
(git|svn|hg|etc) log log Foo.c:main
to see the changes made to a specific function within a source file ...
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What Part of Your Project Should be in Source Code Control?
A fellow developer has started work on a new Drupal project, and the sysadmin has suggested that they should only put the sites/default subdirectory in source control, because it "will make updates ...
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Are there any good examples of open source C# projects with a large number of refactorings?
I'm doing research into software evolution and C#/.NET, specifically on identifying refactorings from changesets, so I'm looking for a suitable (XP-like) project that may serve as a test subject for ...
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Better control on code updates
I will briefly explain my situation.
I have a website in PHP, this website is powered by a custom framework + some "plug-in" made ad hoc for it.
I am the only developer of this. Until now I just ...
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Is it good idea to require to commit only working code?
Sometimes I hear people saying something like "All committed code must be working". In some articles people even write descriptions how to create svn or git hooks that compile and test code before ...
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Team Foundation Server - Hosting
Does anyone have any experience with companies offering Team Foundation Server hosting services? Of course, we're looking for a company that is, first and foremost, reliable and solid. Cost is ...
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How was Git designed?
My workplace recently switched to Git and I've been loving (and hating!) it. I really do love it, and it is extremely powerful. The only part I hate is that sometimes it's too powerful (and maybe a ...
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Headaches using distributed version control for traditional teams?
Though I use and like DVCS for my personal projects, and can totally see how it makes managing contributions to your project from others easier (e.g. your typical Github scenario), it seems like for a ...
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How to manage IDE project files on a forked repository
I recently forked a Git repository, and locally I created a project in my IDE to compile with.
My IDE creates a variety of artifacts that I would like to keep saved somewhere. The obvious place would ...
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Ensuring successful merges in Subversion
Subversion Re-education actually convinced me, but for now I'll stick to svn - mastering the use of a very popular tool can't be bad.
To date I've not used branching/merges in production code, now I ...
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Using Mercurial repository inside a Git one: Feasible? Sane?
I am thinking on creating a Mercurial repository under a Git repository.
e.g.
..../git-repository/directory/hg-repo/
The 2 repositories
Is it possible to manage (keeping your sanity)? How similiar ...
