Would you recommend working with multiple programmers on an MS Access application? One of our MS Access application has grown to the point where the number of changes (bug fixes) and new features can no longer be handled by one programmer in the requested time frame. We are trying to introduce version control using the undocumented Sav...
Hi, A path in Perforce contains files a.txt and b.txt. I'll refer to the main path as mainline. I've create a branch (called initialbranch) from there which contains just a.txt. I make lots of changes to a.txt, and am very happy with it. However, it's not yet ready for submitting back to mainline. I can easily integrate any changes to ...
The Emacs Wiki lists several modes for supporting mercurial inside of Emacs, including the built-in VC mode. Is it worth exploring any of the other modes, such as the one distributed with mercurial itself? ...
I've never used any kind of source control before although I understand the concept. What I am confused about (and perhaps just not aware) is what benefit do I achieve and/or why would I want to configure Subversion and Apache? Do I need to configure it with Apache to be able to access my repositories from other computers over a network?...
What are the benefits of Perforce? I'd love to have some insight as to how Perforce can work better in a given situation than, say, svn. If you have experience with both perforce and svn and you don't believe that there are any advantages, or believe that svn has advantages over perforce, I'd like to know why, as well. ...
What is the recommended practice? Should I add the my sub-folder under the fitnesse folder to version control? Context: working on a single developer rails pet project. I've my rails project under version-control (Subversion) however my fitnesse wiki pages lie under the fitnesse program folder. Fitnesse seems to have its own versio...
I'm currently installing and configuring an open source project on a test server. I've been well trained to use source control, and I want to make sure everything I do is managed properly (both for me, the sole dev/admin, and for future maintaners). The open source project is available as a source download or by svn checkout. I want to ...
We have a git project which has quite a big history. Specifically, early in the project there were quite a lot of binary resource files in the project, these have now been removed as they're effectively external resources. However, the size of our repository is >200MB (the total checkout is currently ~20MB) due to having these files pr...
I read all over the Internet (various sites and blogs) about version control. How great it is and how all developers NEED to use it because it is very useful. Here is the question: do I really need this? I'm a front-end developer (usually just HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and I NEVER had a problem like "Wow, my files from yesterday!". I've trie...
I'm in the process of establishing some new source control best practices for my organization, so I've been immersing myself in things like TreeSurgeon for the past few days. One thing I see a lot is that it's a best practice to include your references in your source control tree, but in a seperate directory (lib/ in tree surgeon) rathe...
I am developing a website using SQL Server Express on my development machine. My web hosting company is providing me with SQL Server 2005. At the moment all I have is a database that I develop with and a database that is on the live server. I do not have the original scripts to generate the schema but I can auto generate the create scri...
I am currently using Subversion as my Source Control system, mainly because I found ANkhSVN to be a quite nicely integrated into Visual Studio. But many people seem to be using Git or Mercurial and others with great success. Now, I am wondering how to use a system like Git without some sort of IDE integration. Going to the command lin...
I have made a bunch of changes to a number of files in a project. Every commit (usually at the file level) was accompanied by a comment of what was changed. Is there a way to get a list from CVS of these comments on changes since the last tagged version? Bonus if I can do this via the eclipse CVS plugin. UPDATE: I'd love to accept an...
When I've worked a bit with my source code, I do my usual thing commit and then I push to a remote repo. But then I noticed I forgot to organize my imports in the source code. So I do the amend command to replace the previous commit: > git commit --amend Unfortunately the commit can't be pushed back to the repository. It is rejected l...
I once did a cursory search and found no good CVS bindings for Python. I wanted to be able to write helper scripts to do some fine-grained manipulation of the repository and projects in it. I had to resort to using popen and checking the stdout and stderr and then parsing those. It was messy and error-prone. Are there any good qualit...
I am looking for an expression for the .hgignore file, to ignore all files beneath a specified folder. eg: I would like to ignore all files and folders beneath bin Actually any advice on how the expressions are formed would be great ...
I need an ASP.NET control for file uploads that can work in an update panel. Any ideas? ...
I am interested if it's safe to install both TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN on the same computer? All our corporate projects are controlled by CVS, but I want to use SVN for my personal documents (and TortoiseSVN as client). Is it possible? Thanks! ...
At work I use something called team foundations services. It's a source saving tool that stores change sets of code I "check in". Is there a similar product that's good for a single programmer. Something I could use at home. Easy to set up and use is a must. Free is a plus but I'd of course pay for one. edit I suppose I should hav...
I have a largish Mercurial repository that I've decided would be better as several smaller repositories. Is there a way that I can split the repository and have each piece retain its revision history? ...