I've heard that many of the distributed VCSs (git, mercurial, etc) are better at merging than traditional ones like Subversion. What does this mean? What sort of things do they do to make merging better? Could those things be done in a traditional VCS? Bonus question: does SVN 1.5's merge-tracking level the playing field at all? ...
If you are in a corporate setting with many people working on a particular application, is it going against the grain of a distributed version control system to have an official central repository? Sometimes I struggle to understand the concept of a distributed version control system such as GIT in a corporate environment. If you didn'...
I installed VisualSVN on a server that I am using to "stage" web applications that I write - at the present time these applications are Classic ASP/VBScript. My development workstation that I write code on has TortoiseSVN installed, and I can connect to the repository folder I created - I'm using the following structure: development (r...
we are developing an application with flex builder and all our code + fla files are in the svn we wont now to work with branches and i what can be done about merging those file between branches or what shode be the working procedure when do so ?? thanks ...
We've completely lost our repository and we have 8 developers with uncomitted changes. Restoring from backup is assumed to be not possible. If one person could have access to all the working copies (either file copy or remote share) is it possible to merge changes in our working copies to one working copy? The final working copy could...
I'm using bzr to access a Subversion repository. Which is great, but the repository uses quite a few svn:externals properties to bring in code from related projects. Bzr-svn doesn't support svn:externals yet. Is there a good way to work around this limitation? ...
I started a small application in my personal svn repository. It's gained enough interest that it is worth moving development to a shared group repository. Can the app (only a single file) including it's history be migrated to the group repository? ...
I'm working at a company that does several releases to production every year and during the build up to each release we gather up a collection of 1 time sql install scripts like table creation and dataports. The way things currently work is that after the release to production, we branch, tag then we delete all 1 time scripts from subv...
Hi, Is there anybody who has clear instructions on how to add a pre-commit hook that avoids changes to tags subdirectories? I already searched the internet quite a bit. I found this link: http://search.cpan.org/~gnustavo/SVN-Hooks-0.13.11/lib/SVN/Hooks/DenyChanges.pm , but I can't seem to compile things. regards, Wim ...
I was googling around a little bit and couldn't find a good "beginners" guide to SVN, not in the meaning of "how do I use the commands" rather; How do I control my source code? What I'd like to clear up is the following topics: How often do you commit? As often as one would press Ctrl + s? What is a Branch and what is a Tag and how do...
Is there a way to add a subversion repository as a git submodule in my git repository? Something like: git-svn submodule add https://svn.foo.com/svn/proj --stdlayout svn-project Where https://svn.foo.com/svn/proj points to a subversion repository. I know there is git-svn which allows one to interact with a subversion repository. So I ...
hi i'm going to be responsible for deciding how tagging branching is going to happen in our CVS/SVN repo. Is there any literature that will help me understand the best way to work with CVS? either branching/tagging, etc? thanks ...
Our project has one folder that is not part of the solution. How can I get AnkhSVN to recognise and manage this file together with the solution files? I can' add it as a directory under the solution, as that structure is beyond my control. ...
I have been asked to review the changes made in SVN revision number 123, 178, 199, 245 and 288 - which are all the commits related to a specific feature. What is the reasonable way to approach this ? I suppose I really want to see the collected diff in some way, but I'm open to suggestions. We're on revision 400 right now. Edit: I li...
We are in the process of moving to SVN. Unfortunately for us, we are audited periodically, where the auditors require information like: Histories of changes to files History of access to SVN New files Added Changes in files Is there a tool which can produce these reports for us (or some of these)? ...
Hi, Recently I have learned the basics concepts of Git. We did use a bit of git-svn to get familiar with using it. I would like to start my first "true" project on git along with my friends. Therefore I would like to ask you what are the best practices of using Git in general, and if there are any pitfalls that SVN familiar developer m...
Is there a way to make git give me output like svn ls -v does. Basically a list of each file and who last edited that file? Like this: filea.txt Someone Else fileb.txt Another Person Maybe even with the SHA to identify the commit the change happened in? ...
In my company, we use SourceSafe and Visual studio. Starting up a minor project, I am eager to try a more modern source control, I am aiming at Subversion. But I need to work with the previous projects in SourceSafe, at least for now. Q: Will it work well to use both SourceSafe and Subversion in the visual studio IDE? Using what? And a...
Hi, I'm really confused. I want to do something that a) seems like it should be pretty simple, and b) other people must do all the time, but I cant find out the best way to do it anywhere. There's an external repository that contains some 3rd party code. I want to take a copy of version 1 of the code and put it in my own repository, an...
can i access svn+ssh://someAddress by webbrowser? ...