We have a trunk in TFS that everyone works off until we have a need to branch. Our last project was a large feature that required a branch. Now that the development has been completed and the changes have been merged back into the trunk. What should happen to the development branch? Should I delete it? Mark it as read-only somehow? Wha...
I'm looking for a distributed source control system that will let me do a subversion type checkout. I have several different projects and would like to combine them into one repository. I'd like to be able to have working directorys though much as subversion does so each project doesn't have to be it's own repository. From looking at Mer...
Hello, I'm starting a new C# project that uses a database, but I want it all to be version controlled. I'm thinking about a SQL server database (If I make a mdf file, will I be able to use it in a computer without SQL Server installed?) and LINQ to SQL. How do you usually start a project like this? Do you create a .sql file to create th...
I use Tortoise to interact with CVS for source control. When merging it shows you a diff of the files calling the one on your HD "Yours" and the one in the repository "Mine". Or maybe I have that backwards. As you can see that nomenclature confuses me. Then I also have to try to remember which to merge into. Is there a setting to change...
I noticed that Eclipse (Flex Builder) generates hundreds of metadata files. Should I check them into my source control? They seem necessary, because if I delete them Flex Builder just opens up an empty workbench... Some of these files plainly do not belong in source control (like .history files and some cache files). If I delete them my...
I've been looking at the options for getting our database schemas under version control. It seems that Ruby folks have got Rails Migrations, and .NET folks have got a few options (for instance this, this, and this). What about Perl? I've seen this thread on PerlMonks which doesn't have much, although it mentions DBIX::Migration::Direc...
I've heard repeatedly that XCode's integration with SVN is lacking, but seeing as I have personally never used it, I cannot help but wonder why. Now I'm starting a new project, and once again SCM has come up. This time though, I think I want a better idea of what exactly XCode does and doesn't do right with SVN. So, have any horror sto...
When publishing an asp.net web site in Visual Studio 2008, is there a way that I can force it to ignore the .svn folders in my local working copy so that my target folder does not end up with .svn files as part of the output. Thanks, Jason ...
I was just checking in my code and realized that I'm have no idea what criteria my code should ideally meet to perform a check in. Yesterday I checked in after having it my project checked out for a week. Today I checked in again after making little updates. Sometimes I like to keep the code I'm working on checked out until it can g...
My hosting service does not currently run/allow svn, git, cvs on their server. I would really like to be able to 'sync' my current source on my development machine with my production server. I am looking for a pure php/python/ruby version control system (not just a client for a version control system) that does not require any services...
Maybe theres another solution to this. I built a web app that requires 5-10 crons to keep it maintained and various intervals. I want to check-in the crontab into version control, so that it can be easily deployed to other servers. I would like to be able to put a line in the /etc/crontab file that would tell it to look into /myapp/app....
Why does Visual Studio want to check-out a File when opened? I just double click the file to open it and Visual Studio wants to check it out. I did not make any changes to it. I just opened it. i.e. In Solution Explorer I double click ctlEmployeeEdit.vb and the first thing Visual Studio wants to do is check-out that file. I got VS set...
What is the concept of each? When is it ok to shelve your changes instead of checking in? ...
Using Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2008, is there a way to highlight the submissions since my last "get latest version"? This would allow me to quickly identify what has been submitted since my last "pull" without having to remember which changeset I last synced with. Thanks. Eric ...
we (a team of about 150) are considering moving our ALM solution from Bugzilla/CVS to Jira/svn/Confluence/Bamboo/Fisheye. SO has a lot of good info on those, but I would be interested to learn about another tool from Atlassian - a Single Sign On (SSO) Crowd, I am considering adding it to the mix for an LDAP integration with our Novell id...
VSS is much maligned and perhaps justifiably so. Please don't confuse me as an apologist for it, as I gave up on it a while back in favor of Vault. However, despite using VSS for over 10 years on numerous projects with development teams between 3 and 10 developers, I never experienced (or to be fair, noticed) any data loss. I will admi...
Arguing with a friend of mine — I am advocating git/hg, he is advocating CLOBs MySQL. What is your preference? ...
This is kind of a usability question for using VS2005: I have different branches of the same Visual Studio 2005 solution checked out from version control. The solution and project files are also under version control. On my development workstation, I sometimes have multiple instances of Visual Studio opened on a different version or bran...
Hello everyone! I'm trying to create an SQL query that will order the results by a version number (e.g. 1.1, 4.5.10, etc.) Here's what I tried: $bQuery = "SELECT * FROM Requirements WHERE Requirements.Release NOT LIKE '%Obsolete%' ORDER BY Requirements.ReqNum"; Now, the ReqNum field is a string field and unfortunately I can't change ...
Let's say you have a Java-based product out in the market. This old code needs to be maintained, i.e. bug fixes and small feature updates. What (open-source?) tools to you use to maintain old code? To track whether a patch has been applied to all relevant branches, including the main/trunk/head? To track which versions contain the fix...