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Best distributed version control system?

Possible Duplicates: Git and Mercurial - Compare and Contrast DVCS Choices - Whats good for Windows? I have been using SourceSafe and Subversion for years, but recently decided to choose a distributed version control system (or decentralized source control management) like Git, Mercurial or Bazaar or any other thing. So what...

svn dev cycle. howto lots minor "features" pending for approval.

Hi I've read similar questions regarding that but still feel the need to ask a question. I have scenario where we have lots of tiny "features" pending for approval. I generally see two approaches. 1.Keep trunk solid and have tons of branches for each tiny "feature". Basically every new thingy is a branch. Cons: - Might become nightmar...

Migrate SVN repository from Google code to another repository server (keeping history)

I read some question/answers here about how to do it using svnadmin/dump etc. Actually I did not understand properly what I'm supposed to do. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/939963/how-to-migrate-svn-to-another-repository I think I have to do some sort of dump from the Google code repository using svnadmin, but where do I ge...

How can I move my SVN working copy to Codeplex, maintainting file properties, but not history?

I am about to open-source one of my projects, and I want to move the current instance of it into CodePlex. How would I go about copying the current working directory into CodePlex's SVN, maintainting pile properties (like "svn:needs-lock" and "svn:mime-type"), without maintaining history? I don't want or need the history moved, I will ...

Unicode support in TortoiseSVN merges

Has anyone used TortoiseSVN to merge .NET resource files (.resx) from branch to trunk? From my experience, WinMerge fails to merge files that contain Unicode. ...

What is a good SVN plugin for Eclipse?

A few years ago I've installed several SVN plugins for eclipse. At the time I wasn't impressed with their quality. Many were slow, buggy and couldn't cope with any file interactions that didn't go through the plugin. So I went back to just using TortoiseSVN for windows and command line for linux. Now I'm ready to give it another try. Wh...

SVN merge from project root is missing some files?

My current working copy is /opt/project, this is the up to date copy of the branch from https://example.com/project/branches/branch_1. To pull changes that are committed to trunk back into my working copy, I have been running this command: svn merge ^/trunk This seemed to work in that it would update various files when commits happene...

`svn -u status` hangs when connecting to server but only for me!

I've checked out two repositories with svn and they both have some odd behavior when using commands like svn -u status. That command in particular will hang, and top says the process is sleeping. I can check out and update those repos (usually), but this in particular will hang until I kill -9 it. It doesn't happen on anyone else's compu...

How many lines of code have been committed to my SVN repository?

How could I check how many lines of code have been committed to my SVN repository across all commits? ...

Is there a clean way to remove a svn tag in Hudson

Recently, we tagged a build through Hudson, but shortly afterward a bug was found that necessitated a rebuild. We ended up deleting the tag in subversion, but Hudson still showed the tag on that build. I found the following in \jobs\\builds\\build.xml <hudson.scm.SubversionTagAction> <build class="build" reference="../../.."/> <ta...

Should we or should we not check in the classes folder in WEB-INF directory into SVN?

I use SVN, and am learning how to use it along with eclipse IDE. The first time I add classes to my package, there is no problem, the generated class files get into SVN smoothly. The moment I edit them, I get this message - "WEB-INF/classes" is obstructed. I try the "clean-up" command and the clean up command says "WEB-INF/classes" folde...

SVNKit , show list of files to commit

Hi, I almost use SVNKit API. I make my client and I can not find a way to show files that can commit. In some of the clients such as Tortoise, we have change dialog with a list of files that have been modified. And we can choose files for "commit". How can I extract the names/path of these files? Does API allow you to do? Thank you ...

SVN on Team Foundation Server - Delphi 2010

We're looking to upgrade to Delphi 2010 and have Team Foundation Server as our source Control. Is there a plug in for TFS that allows clients to talk to it via SVN? I noticed that CodePlex, Microsoft's open source web service, supports TFS and SVN so am hoping that there is a SVN plug in for TFS. Ian ...

Tortoise SVN revision history

I want to know for how long the tortoise svn keeps the revision history. Say I have a file which I deleted from repository through repo browser an year ago, will I be able to still recover that file? If I am able to recover, I also want to know the method to permanently delete that earlier copy of file and related revisions history so ...

How do I see the last 10 commits in reverse-chronoligical order with SVN?

Using the SVN commandline is there a way to show the last X number of commits along with commit messages in revere-chronological order? ...

Tortoise SVN diff between revisions with different structure

I have code in subversion. Recently the way the code is structured was changed from this: root/source-here to: root/folder 1/source-here root/folder 2/other stuff I went ahead and made a diff using Tortoise SVN but I didn't get what I expected. Basically all files (modified and new) are shown as added and all folders of original ...

Alert team members of SVN commit?

I'm hosting my own svn repository on ubuntu 8.04. Is there a way for svn to send emails to team members whenever a commit has happened? If coding is required, the only language I'm able to use on a linux server is PHP. So I could write a php script to be triggered by svn. Can anyone tell me how to hook up my php script to an svn comm...

svn question - how to restore specific file?

I see a lot about reverting back a revision, but is there a way to specify a file that you want to restore? Basically, svn up show a bunch of files have been deleted... (D filename) I want to "undelete" those... ...

How to restrict the number of history kept by svn?

For example, I only want 3 records of a certain branch or item. Thank you very much! Update: Thanks for you guys' answer. Maybe it is not a good question. I have one framework repo and several projects referencing the framework. I usually keep working on one project and sometimes I need to update the framework. However, I don't want to...

SVN merge adding parameters. WTF? Or how to do big merges?

I am doing an SVN merge for a branch, and in one of the files I see this: GetQueryReferenceData(int sessionId, Int32 sessionId) Which means that the merge tool just added another parameter without asking any questions. Imagine if it was a call to Substring(0) and in another branch it would be Substring(0,2). That is completely differe...