I'd like to know if there is any personal source controller, I'd like to have a repository on my machine without going through setting up a server, also I work with TeX files not any particular language and I'd like to have backups of my files the way sub version does ...
Am trying to implement a generic way for reading sections from a config file. The config file may contain 'standard' sections or 'custom' sections as below. <configuration> <configSections> <section name="NoteSettings" type="System.Configuration.NameValueSectionHandler"/> </configSections> <appSettings> <add key="AutoStart" value="t...
I have a fairly infrequent problem occuring with source control. In the example here the problem was occuring with Perforce, but I suspect the same problem will occur with many SCMs, especially distributed SCMs. Perforce supports changelists (or changesets if you prefer). Changelists support two common usages: When you commit a change...
While related questions have been asked before I would like to see an idea about how interoperability between two source control management (SCM) systems can be done. For example we could consider any SCM out there (Mercurial, Git, SVN, CVS, Perforce, ClearCase ...). Mainly I'm interested if ClearCase can be used along with SVN or Git/...
I'm currently tinkering at an OpenBSD system with a view to building myself a firewall and some other bits and bobs. As this is fairly experimental (I'm an OpenBSD n00b, and I've already trashed my system 3 or 4 times), I wonder what experience others have of making part or all of the file system (I'm thinking in particular of /etc) a w...
Just to preface: I work in a small company that does ASP.NET development and uses SQL Server 2005 for all of our database needs. I was curious as to what were the pros and cons of using Visual Studio or SQL Server Management Studio for our development on the database side (i.e. table creation, stored procedure writing, etc.). Right n...
I am looking for a good site to throw up my pet projects. Its nothing I want published to the world at large (if at all possible), its just for stuff that I want to play around with. The big thing is that I am going to need the ability to delete projects when I am done with them, something that wouldn't be supported if I checked multipl...
A simple question for people to post their comments, and what their choice was and why. Also it would be interesting to see what prompted you to use it? For me, I use source control so that I use the same at work, so I can get familiar with how to use it I get protection if I screw code up as can go back Its offsite so if my pc dies, ...
I'm looking for a nice, Mac OS X-like, client for Git. As an example, I use Versions for Subversion and it's exactly what I'd like to purchase for Git access. Suggestions? Versions link ...
Suppose I've developed a general-purpose end user utility written in Python. Previously, I had just one version available which was suitable for Python later than version 2.3 or so. It was sufficient to say, "download Python if you need to, then run this script". There was just one version of the script in source control (I'm using Git) ...
I'm so sorry for the awful question title, but I'll try to explain myself a bit more verbosely: I'm using Git (but I guess the particular software doesn't really matter in this case) for my software project. As many projects, I'm planning on having various releases. When there's a release, I'd probably assign a commit a tag - for exampl...
I've been considering using a version control system like SVN as a general-purpose backup and synchronisation tool between the few PCs I use. This would be for all sorts of data, including MP3s and ripped DVDs - a LOT of data (120gb+). My main issue is that SVN creates a copy of each versioned file in the .svn directory. While I can see...
I looked for similar questions to mine and one seemed promising, but the accepted anser was not applicable to me (I think.) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282858/drupal-source-control-strategy Basically one has to have rights on the server you are deploying to. That is not my situation. I use a hosting service and I do not think ...
For a typical J2EE web application, the datasource connection settings are stored as part of the application server configuration. Is there a way to version control these configuration details? I want more control on the datasource and other application server config changes. What is the standard practice for doing this? ...
I've been using git now for a couple months on a project with one other developer. I have several years of experience with svn, so I guess I bring a lot of baggage to the relationship. I have heard that git is excellent for branching and merging, and so far, I just don't see it. Sure, branching is dead simple, but when I try to merge,...
I am working on a large source base (approx 15K files) decomposed into about 25 projects. I want to keep the source in perforce (and am evaluating perforce to that end) but due to complications in the setup it isn't possible for me to keep the visual studio projects in source control, I know in theory the answer to this is to check the p...
I've heard that many of the distributed VCSs (git, mercurial, etc) are better at merging than traditional ones like Subversion. What does this mean? What sort of things do they do to make merging better? Could those things be done in a traditional VCS? Bonus question: does SVN 1.5's merge-tracking level the playing field at all? ...
Are there any source code sharing system that lets you check in/out code on function-level? Would be nice to be able to check out just one function or one subroutine or one property to work with and still let other developers work with the rest. I know that working with sorce-control-systems that working primary with mergeing is kind ...
I am a novice in the world of source/version control and I have been doing as much reading as physically possible to get my head around the different techniques that people use for their own source/version control. One thing that I have noticed is a pretty distinct break in the methods of developers into two (possibly more?) groups: one...
I have a version control system (e.g. Subversion) and now I'd like to set up a build process. Now I have to create a version number and insert it into the system. But where does the version number come from and get into? Assume I want to use this common <major>.<minor>.<bugfix/revision> scheme. Should I pass a number to the build script?...