Source Control Beginners
What would be the best version control system to learn as a beginner to source control? ...
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Why is Harvest being purchased at all?
Does your work environment use Harvest SCM? I've used this now at two different locations and find it appalling. In one situation I wrote a conversion script so I could use CVS locally and then daily import changes to the Harvest system while I was sleeping. The corp was fanatic about using Harvest, despite 80% of the programmers crying ...
Perforce in a Microsoft Shop
Our dev shop currently uses Visual SourceSafe. We all know how that could end up (badly), so we're investigating other systems. First up is Perforce. Does anyone have experience with using it and its integration into Visual Studio (2003/2005/2008)? Is it as good as any other, or is it pretty solid with good features, comparatively? ...
Do you use distributed version control?
I'd like to hear from people who are using distributed version control (aka distributed revision control, decentralized version control) and how they are finding it. What are you using, Mercurial, Darcs, Git, Bazaar? Are you still using it? If you've used client/server rcs in the past, are you finding it better, worse or just different? ...
Best approaches to versioning Mac "bundle" files
So you know a lot of Mac apps use "bundles": It looks like a single file to your application, but it's actually a folder with many files inside. For a version control system to handle this, it needs to: check out all the files in a directory, so the app can modify them as necessary at checkin, commit files which have been modified a...
How do you deal with the light side and dark side of distributed version control systems ?
I've had some discussions recently at work about switching from Subversion to a DVCS like bazaar, and I would like to get other people's opinion. I've managed to crystallize my reluctance to do so into a simple parallel. Version Control can be used well or badly. The 'light side' of version control is when you use it to keep track o...
What is the best solution for maintaining backup and revision control on live websites?
What is the best solution for maintaining backup and revision control on live websites? As part of my job I work with several live websites. We need an efficient means of maintaining backups of the live folders over time. Additionally, updating these sites can be a pain, especially if a change happens to break in the live environment ...
How to "unversion" a file in either svn and/or git
It happens to me all the time. I accidentally version a file, I do not want to be versioned (i.e. developer/machine specific config-files). If I commit this file, I will mess up the paths on all the other developer machines - they will be unhappy. If I do delete the file from versioning, it will be deleted from the other developers mac...
How can I merge my files when the folder structure has changed using Borland StarTeam?
I'm in the process of refactoring some code which includes moving folders around, and I would like to regularly merge to keep things current. What is the best way to merge after I've moved folders around in my working copy? ...
Any good Subversion 1.5 virtual appliance recommendations?
I'm looking for a quick-and-dirty solution to this, I have to set up a Subversion server really quickly, like by the end of the day tomorrow. My initial thought was to just download a virtual appliance that we could load onto our host machine. The problem I am having however is that all the appliances I have found so far are stuck in s...
What is the more efficient version control methodology: checkout or merge?
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...
Version Control for Graphics
Say a development team includes (or makes use of) graphic artists who create all the images that go into a product. Such things include icons, bitmaps, window backgrounds, button images, animations, etc. Obviously, everything needed to build a piece of software should be under some form of version control. Should the graphics people u...
What open source hosting service should I use?
The story so far: sourceforge google code assembla cvs dude launchpad github gitorious codeplex freehg bzr what else is out there? which ones do you use? what are their pros and cons? how's your experience with them? which would you recommend for a new project? etc... ...
Good Git repository viewer for Mac
Can anyone recommend a good repository viewer for Git, similar to gitk, that works on Mac OS X Leopard? (I'm not saying gitk doesn't work) Of course I would like a native Mac application, but as I haven't found any, what are the best options to gitk? I know about gitview, but I'm looking forward to evaluate as many alternatives as poss...
How do you do version a Web Application?
What are the strategies for versioning of a web application/ web site? I notice that here in the Beta there is an svn revision number in the footer and thats great for an application that uses svn over one repository. But what if you use externals or a different source control application that versions separate files? It seems eas...
Is version control (ie. Subversion) applicable in document tracking?
I am in charge of about 100+ documents (word document, not source code) that needs revision by different people in my department. Currently all the documents are in a shared folder where they will retrieve, revise and save back into the folder. What I am doing now is looking up the "date modified" in the shared folder, opened up recent...
Visual Source Safe --> TFS Migration
Around here we have been working with a bunch of Visual Source Safe repositories for about 10 years or so. Now I want to get rid of sourcesafe and move on to Team Foundation Server. Do you have any tips or tricks for me before I embark on this migration? What are the things I have to be careful about? I am sure this migration will m...
What would be a good, windows and iis (http) based distributed version control system
At my job we make & sell websites. Usually we install our .NET C# based site on a customer's server and maintain and support it remotely. However, every once in a while, for bigger development works and just to make things simpler (and faster!), we will copy the site to a local server. This is great, but has one pain - moving the site b...
Source Versioning for Visual Studio Express
Is there any Visual Studio Express plug ins for source versioning? I am starting a project on my own and only have the Express version of Visual Studio 2008. ...
Setting up replicated repositories in Plastic SCM
So we're trying to set up replicated repositories using PlasticSCM, one in the US, and one in Australia and running into a bit of a snag. The US configuration is Active Directory, the AU configuration is User/Password. This in itself is not a big deal, I've already set up the SID translation table. The problem is with plasticscm's r...