version-control

What's the best cross-platform Version Control System for a very small team?

I'm looking for a no-headache version control system to manage my personal projects, those of my wife's, and for collaboration with a few other diverse individuals on a project-by-project basis. I would also like it to be a no-brainer for giving someone access to a project. This should be a system that is easy to install on a windows or...

What are some of your favorite settings in Git configuration files to make Git Fun?

What are your favorite Git configuration settings which make your life easy while working with Git? ...

Best Practices for Source Control Dependencies

How do you handle source control setup of a non-compiled project that has dependency on a separate framework or library? For example, Project A uses Framework B. Should Project A also include the code from Framework B in its repository? Is there a way for it to be included automatically from a different repository or would I have to upda...

AnkhSVN: moving a project to another repo

My task is to move this VS solution and projects to another SVN server. I'm working with Visual Studio 2010 RC1 and AnkhSVN 2.1.7819.... Currently the files are all bound to a repo at C:\Repositories\foo. I'd like to move it to http://someSite/svn/foo The most obvious way, I found, was the Pending Changes - Source Files window (whi...

Using TortoiseHg’s Repository explorer

I posted this question on superuser.com but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate there.. Anyway: Hi, I'm coming from a TortoiseSVN background and decided to give TortoiseHg a try.. One thing I got really used to with TortoiseSVN was the SVN Repo-Explorer, which worked quite similarly to Windows Explorer.. However, when I tried to use T...

Is git suitable for one developer without server

I am a single developer without another computer to backup my projects on. I'm looking into source controls and I came across git but all the setup tutorials are targeted to an external server. I used to use SourceGear Vault, but seeing that git is getting alot of attention, I might as well familiarize myself with it. I do not always hav...

How to search the file contents in multiple subversion repositories?

I've got multiple SVN repositories of different projects which I would like to search for the same search term / regex, but without checking out or updating each project and doing the search manually on each of them. I'd like to know if it is possible to search the file contents in multiple SVN repositories for some search term (or rege...

Using a separate version control system for changes when main version control is not accessible

Hi folks. Here is my situation: The project I'm working on right now uses a version control system (Microsoft Team Foundation) that's hosted and managed remotely by the customer. I am in charge of doing a massive refactoring/bugfixing after somebody who left a horrendous mess of code behind. Due to several reasons tha...

Database structure and source control - best practice

Background I came from several years working in a company where all the database objects were stored in source control, one file per object. We had a list of all the objects that was maintained when new items were added (to allow us to have scripts run in order and handle dependencies) and a VB script that ran to create one big script ...

[*nix, C] Library for internal software config managment

Hi! I am writing software, which allows simultaneous user access to configuration commands. And I want to include some kind of configuration management into it. So that one user can edit and then commit config, the other can see diff between versions. So I am looking for libraries, that implement these (or similar) functions. Can you r...

Xcode + Perforce: it frequently shows me the spinning wheel for no reason! What can i do?

While working on an Xcode project i keep getting the spinning wheel while switching files, scrolling, searching, typing, debugging, removing breakpoints, switching back from another app or saving. It also happens before compiling but usually it just happens from time to time for no apparent reason. This is the second time this started h...

Properly using SVN & CI

I am setting up the development environment for my start-up just now. I use Hudson for continuous integration of source code. It polls the SVN repository for changes every 10 minutes and if there are any deploys them to the LIVE servers from our DEV servers. What I would like though is to have another Hudson job which deploys from DEV t...

hg : how to convert a single subversion branch

I have a subversion repository, where each branch is a separate project. I would like to change this architecture, and to gradually move to mercurial. How can I convert a single branch of a subversion repo into an hg repository. hg version : 1.01 ...

Wordpress Multiple Developer Setup

Is there a good option for having more than one person developing a Wordpress application with a testing site. The biggest hurdle that I have encountered are path issues when developing locally and integrating to a testing environment. Does anyone have a good process for maintaining developer environment(s), keeping working content a...

accurev convert from stream number to stream name

In Accurev how to convert from stream number to stream name, Say I have stream number is 257 how to know the stream name from ? ...

Source core repositories and sticky notes

An interesting problem occured recently, and I've been thinking of the "best" way (for a given value of "best") to implement this. In essence, it's one of tracking notes against source code. The example that flagged this was getting a problem fixed in live within SLAs, and how to best achieve this. Without going into all the details, it...

Are there generic options for version control within a database?

I have a small amount of experience using SVN on my development projects, and I have just as little experience with relational databases. I know the basic concepts like tables, and SQL statements, but I'm far from being an expert. What I'd like to know is if there are any generic version control type systems like SVN, but that work with...

Efficiently build two versions of an Iphone app from a single Xcode project?

I want to make paid and free versions of my app. I want to structure things so that I can build one version or the other with as few changes as possible. As far as the source code is concerned, this is easily accomplished by having a BOOL constant isFreeVersion somewhere, and referring to it as needed. But how should I set everything ...

IBM's RTC and Microsoft's TFS 2010

What in your view are the most important differences? Need to make an expensive decision... Information: We have both Java and .NET Projects (few more .NET) Very interested in project life cycle management. Migrating from ClearCase ...

What's the best way to replace remote.origin.url in Git?

I'm new to Git. Let's say Alice and Bob had been developing their project by using two Git repositories for each. And, Alice at certain times want to set up a new repository to manage their common progress. Do you think what is the best way to replace remote.origin.url in the configuration of Git? to replace by git config --replace to ...