I've always used Subversion or CVS for version control, which use a 'merge' methodology. One of my friends raves about Perforce and how great it is with its change lists and check-out methodology. While I'm sure a lot of it comes down to experience & personal preference, I was wondering if any research had been done into which method o...
If you have Subversion installed on your development machine and you don't work in a team, is there any reason why you should use the svn protocol instead of file? ...
Are there any good deployment tools that can be used with LAMP and Subversion? Ideally it would handle both code updates and database migrations. ...
I'm new to svn and I'd like to know what are common methods of backing up repositories in a windows environment? ...
Is there a way to tell subversion "update/merge unless it would cause a conflict"? I know you can use --dry-run / status -u to check before running the update, but I often have others running updates and getting broken webpages because they don't notice the "C index.php" line. I've also noticed that svn doesn't seem too unhappy about...
One of my co-workers checked in a some files in SVN and one of the files has a password in it. The password has been removed from the file and a new version checked in but the password is obviously still in the repository if we look at the revision history and go to that revision. (We're using TortoiseSVN as the client.) So how do I sec...
This is a follow on question to "How do I delete 1 file from a revision in SVN?" but because it probably has a very different answer and I believe that others would benefit from knowing the answer. (I don't know the answer yet.) The previous question was answered and I discovered that that it is not possible to remove a revision from SV...
I'm working on mac OS x 10.4. I have a subversion repository stored on an external drive connected via USB. I created a new python project in Eclipse (using the PyDev plugin). When I use right click Team->Share Project to set up a new prject with subversion, I get the following error: Error while creating module: org.tigris.subversion.j...
When I try to do any svn command and supply the "--username" and/or "--password" options, it prompts me for my password anyways, and always will attempt to use my current user instead of the one specified by "--username". Neither "--no-auth-cache" nor "--non-interactive" have any effect on this. This is a problem because I'm trying to ...
I am ready to start using SVN, but I have NO (as in the money required for free beer) experience with source control. I have installed subversion on my server (that was easy, 'apt-get install subversion') but now I don't know what to do, how to configure it, or how to use it.What suggestions do you have, and where can I find good resour...
Let's say I have committed some bad changes to Subversion repository. Then I commit good changes, that I want to keep. What would be easiest way to roll back those bad changes in Eclipse, and keep the good changes? Assuming that files relating to bad changes are not same as those relating to the good changes. How things change if good c...
This might seem like a stupid question I admit. But I'm in a small shop me plus two designers. Our backups are getting out of hand because they just copy/paste files if they need to make a change (version). I was all set to try Subversion to handle all of our files my text (code) files and their photoshop/illustrator and asset files. T...
I currently use subversion for my version control via AhnkSVN and Visual Studio. I recently started using Tree Surgeon to set up my projects. It creates a build script automatically using NAnt. I would like to be able to automate builds regularly projects within SVN. I like the idea of doing a build on every check in but nightly buil...
We have been working with CVS for years, and frequently find it useful to sticky a single file here and there. Is there any way to do this in subversion, specifically from TortoiseSVN? ...
I want to ran the following script on text files that are being committed: # Send the commands H and w to ed # ed will append newline if the file does not end in one printf "%s\n" H w | ed -s $1 # Strip trailing whitespace sed -i 's/[ \t]*$//g' $1 # Convert tabs to 4 spaces sed -i -r "s/\t/ /g" $1 I see subversion has a start-com...
Over at Can you modify text files when committing to subversion? Grant suggested that I block commits instead. However I don't know how to check a file ends with a newline. How can you detect that the file ends with a newline? ...
Browsing through the git documentation, I can't see anything analogous to SVN's commit hooks or the "propset" features that can, say, update a version number or copyright notice within a file whenever it is committed to the repository. Are git users expected to write external scripts for this sort of functionality (which doesn't seem ou...
Things like $log$ and $version$ which add data upon check-in to the file. I'm interested in seeing the other ones and what information they can provide, but I can't get much info unless I know what they are called. Thanks. ...
I know how to use tags in subversion. I create a tag every time I get to a release milestone. What I don't quite understand is how they work. Is a tag just a copy, made from what ever revision I specify? Or is a tag more like a reference, where internally subversion just says GO TO /trunk/project/ Revision 5 or whatever. The command ...
I'm early in development on a web application built in VS2008. I have both a desktop PC (where most of the work gets done) and a laptop (for occasional portability) on which I use AnkhSVN to keep the project code synced. What's the best way to keep my development database (SQL Server Express) synced up as well? I have a VS database proj...