version-control

Best practices for using Subversion on a development server?

I installed VisualSVN on a server that I am using to "stage" web applications that I write - at the present time these applications are Classic ASP/VBScript. My development workstation that I write code on has TortoiseSVN installed, and I can connect to the repository folder I created - I'm using the following structure: development (r...

Putting existing versions and branches of a project under version control

I am the only developer of a software project. I did not use any version control until now. I know I can put the last version of the project under version control. The question is whether it is possible to put older versions and branches of the project under version control. If it is possible, how ? which version control software should...

Tortoise CVS - Prevent a user from committing changes in a branch?

How do I prevent a developer from committing changes into a particular branch in CVS? Recently, a fellow developer committed code into the main branch, leaving me with a lot of rolling back to do ;-( How can I prevent this? ...

Perforce, Projects shared among multiple Solutions

UPDATE: So it turns out that we may have found a bug in Visual Studio 2003 (I know...no surprise). We found out that if the solutions were added to the repository using Visual Studio (using Add Solution to Source Control) everything went fine...go figure. So we're converting our VSS repository (if it can be called that) to Perforce ...

Do you have a clever hack to work around svn:externals not being supported in bzr-svn

I'm using bzr to access a Subversion repository. Which is great, but the repository uses quite a few svn:externals properties to bring in code from related projects. Bzr-svn doesn't support svn:externals yet. Is there a good way to work around this limitation? ...

What is continuous integration?

What is continuous integration and what are its benefits? ...

Continuous Integration for Common Lisp?

Are there any continuous integration frameworks for CL? Specifically, I'm looking for: Automated "build", i.e. ASDF system load from base state Automated tests Status push - email notification and the like, especially for broken builds and failed tests Status pull - website, logs, anything the dev team can pull to read Status history - ...

What is the best source control system for a solo programmer using Visual Studio 08?

I writing a C# App for a customer for the first time and I am not sure what to do about adopting a version control system. My version control system is soley composed of making full copies of the source code every day so I never lose more than a day of work. I would like to do something less primitive going forward. Which source c...

How to use SVN, Branch? Tag? Trunk?

I was googling around a little bit and couldn't find a good "beginners" guide to SVN, not in the meaning of "how do I use the commands" rather; How do I control my source code? What I'd like to clear up is the following topics: How often do you commit? As often as one would press Ctrl + s? What is a Branch and what is a Tag and how do...

CVS/SVN best practices for branching and tagging

hi i'm going to be responsible for deciding how tagging branching is going to happen in our CVS/SVN repo. Is there any literature that will help me understand the best way to work with CVS? either branching/tagging, etc? thanks ...

Control non-solution files with AnkhSVN

Our project has one folder that is not part of the solution. How can I get AnkhSVN to recognise and manage this file together with the solution files? I can' add it as a directory under the solution, as that structure is beyond my control. ...

Source Control and stored procedures

Hi I have been wondering how to put all the stored procedures on a SQL 2000 under source control. We are using Subversion for all our normal source code, so it would be great if there were a solution to the problem using Subversion. Do you have any ideas? Update 16-02-2009: This is the vbs script i used to export all the stored proce...

Using Subversion and Visual SourceSafe in parallel?

In my company, we use SourceSafe and Visual studio. Starting up a minor project, I am eager to try a more modern source control, I am aiming at Subversion. But I need to work with the previous projects in SourceSafe, at least for now. Q: Will it work well to use both SourceSafe and Subversion in the visual studio IDE? Using what? And a...

How do I run 2 or more copies of the same WebSolution at the same time?

I have a solution with 8 seperate Web Apps which are required to redirect/link to each other on occasion. Also I use Subversion as my sourceControl and do development in one branch and bug fixing in another. Thus I can have more than one copy of the web suite on my machine at once. For the purposes of this question let's say they are ...

Can Perforce and SourceSafe co-exist in Visual Studio?

Visual Studio 2008, to be more specific. We're testing out moving to Perforce for source control, so I'd like to install the P4SCC plugin to monkey around with. However, I'd also like to continue using SourceSafe's IDE capabilities for projects that haven't been moved over yet. Can the two co-exist peacefully, or is it one or the other f...

Web-development setup

Hi I am in the process of setting up a complete web-development environment. For now, there are two developers, one dedicated to backend programming (C#, .NET) and one dedicated to frontend development (HTML, CSS, XSLT). Each have an installation of MS Visual Studio 2008 and shared source via Visual Source Safe 2005. They both checkout...

All change comments to perforce branch between 2 labels? (including merges)

Our perforce admin limits "max-row" scans so that my first idea of running the following will not work: All changes including integrates into a branch at particular label time 1 All changes including integrates into a branch at particular earlier label time 2 Subtract time 2 changes from time 1 to get the new changes with comments. I...

git: switch branch without detaching head

I have a repository on github with a main branch (master) and a branch for some experimental work. I made some commits and pushed to the experimental branch and everything was fine. Now, on a different machine, I try to clone my repository (git clone repository) and then switch to the experimental branch (git checkout branchname) but e...

AnkhSVN - keep local copy and get latest version

Hello All, I m new to use ankhSVN and having issues. I have created some new files which are not commited. It was required that i need to get latest version. I right clicked the folder and selected update. I didnt get the latest version and also my files were not present. It had a question mark icon towards the left. Ideally i want to kn...

Recommendations for storing project documents for shared access?

I am currently using Microsoft Word to write the various documents required for a project - concept of operations, requirements, test plans, etc. These documents are placed on a network share for others to view. If someone wants to edit the document, they must communicate this fact somehow to anyone else who is likely to be modifying i...