I've been wanting to get my databases under version control. Does anyone have any advice or recommended articles to get me started? I'll always want to have at least some data in there (as alumb mentions: user types and administrators). And I'll probably often want a large collection of generated test data for performance measurement....
I've been interested in Git, but the last time I looked the Windows support was essentially "run Linux". Are there any distributed source control tools that run well on Windows?...
I often run into the following problem. I work on some changes to a project that require new tables or columns in the database. I make the database modifications and continue my work. Usually, I remember to write down the changes so that they can be replicated on the live system. However, I don't always remember what I've changed and I ...
My company currently uses CVS as our defacto standard for source control. I've heard many people say SVN is better, and I know that it's newer, but other than that am not sure of the benefits. I should note we use primarily java and eclipse if that matters. I guess what I'm looking for is a good, succinct comparison of the 2 noting ad...
My office has a central Source Safe 2005 install that we use for source control. I can't change what the office uses on the server. I develop on a laptop and would like to have a different local source control repository that can sync with the central server (when available) regardless of the what that central provider is. The reason f...
Is it possible to create "federated" Subversion servers? As in one server at location A and another at location B that sync up their local versions of the repository automatically. That way when someone at either location interacts with the repository they are accessing their respective local server and therefore has faster response tim...
How do I create a branch in SVN?...
So I know I need to implement version control, even for just the developing I do at home. My issue is I have read about how great Subversion is for the past couple years. I was about to dedicate myself to learning this on the side. But now I am starting to read about Git being the up and coming version control system. So should I hol...
After being told by at least 10 people on SO that version control was a good thing even if it's just me I now have a followup question. What is the difference between all the different types of version control and is there a guide that anybody knows of for version control that's very simple and easy to understand? ...
A few months back my team switched our source control over to Subversion from Visual SourceSafe, and we haven't been happier. Recently I've been looking at Team Foundation Server, and at least on the surface, it seems very impressive. There is some great integration with Visual Studio, and lots of great tools for DBA's, testers, projec...
We've got two developers on the same closed (ugh, stupid gov) network, Another developer a couple minutes drive down the road, and a fourth developer half-way across the country. E-Mail, ftp, and removal media are all possible methods of transfer for the people not on the same network. I am one of the two closed network developers, cons...
So I want to get a project on a distributed version control system, such as mercurial, git, or bazaar. The catch is that I need the Windows support to be good, i.e. no instructions that start off with "install cygwin...". Now I've heard that git's Windows support is decent these days, but don't have any first hand experience. Also, it...
We have a php project that we would like to version control. Right now there are three of us working on a "Dev" version of the project that all have our Eclipse linked to it with just an external folder, and thus no version control. What is the right way, and what is the best way, to version control this (not necessarily the same I dont...
Is there a good way to check database structure into a SVN? Perhaps checking in a DDL file when changed? Any ideas?...
Is it possible to undo the changes caused by the following: git reset --hard HEAD~1 ? If so, how? Thanks....
Let's say you have a typical web app and with a file configuration.whatever. Every developer working on the project will have one version for their dev boxes, there will be a dev, prod and stage versions. How do you deal with this in source control? Not check in this file at all, check it with different names or do something fancy altoge...
I'm looking for good suggestions on how to implement version and source control for web projects. I've looked into subversion, but it seems to only take care of code. I'm really looking for something that can do good version-ing, branching, archival, etc. with not only source code, but other web assets like art files, movie clips, and ...
What kinds of hook scripts are people using for Subversion? Just general ideas but code would be great too!...
Where should I start learning about version control systems? I've used SVN, Team Foundation, and Sourcesafe in the past but I don't really feel like I grasp it completely, and my team doesn't seem to grasp it either. Which points are the most important to master? I realise this differs from VCS to VCS, but for the sake of this question ...
Anybody have a script or alias to find untracked (really: unadded) files in a Perforce tree? EDIT: I updated the accepted answer on this one since it looks like P4V added support for this in the January 2009 release. ...