version-control

Versioning SQL Server?

The development group I'm currently in uses Visual Source Safe for our version control; this choice was originally made due to cost and it's tight integration with Visual Studio. As our repository has grown Source Safe is really starting to show it's limitations and we are considering moving to another solution. Up for discussion prima...

How can one setup a version control system on a local network, without a server?

Edit: Ok so I learned that I guess I need an distributed source control, however are there any UI based ones, and do they allow you to merge with other users on the network? This is kind of a two part question, so here it goes. I want to start developing a web application at home (with multiple developers). However, I don't have a dedic...

In bitkeeper/bk, how do I list all untracked files in my repository?

In bitkeeper/bk, how do I list all untracked files in my repository? ...

how to restore deleted file

How do I restore a file I accidentally removed from my git repository? I know this is a trivial question, but I haven't found the answer in the documentation. ...

How can I correct corrupted $PYTHONPATH?

Hello, When trying to launch Mercurial(hg) after a restart in my Ubuntu 9.10 Linux Box I got following message: abort: couldn't find mercurial libraries in [/usr/bin /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/vipy-0.4-py2.6.egg /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/nose-0.11.1-py2.6.egg /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/rope-0....

remote source control for personal flex projects

Hi, Can anyone suggest good places for source control on personal Flex projects, and what eclipse plug-ins are available for these source control services? I'd like to add some personal projects to source control when they are ready. Thanks Stephen ...

Is there a best practice to not forget SVN Add new files with Tortoise SVN?

We've been using Source Safe for years. Now we use Tortoise SVN. It's quite a problem to not forget to add new files to the repository - Source Safe had integration with Visual Studio but I don't see any for Tortoise SVN and so I often forget to add files and this breaks the build. Is there some industry-wide practice for simplifying ad...

Problem with Toad for MySQL and version control

I'm trying to use SVN with Toad for MySQL to keep two DBs on two development machines in sync. When I modify a table on one machine Toad changes the appropriate scripts and checks them in just fine. On the other machine, when I try "Update database" or "Updata schema" or even "Get Latest" on the specific table, I get a window which show...

SVN: How do I link part of my source to another repository?

Say my trunk refers to Hibernate and I would like to use the source directly in my repository from sourceforge and whenever I do a svn update it should also update hibernate from its source How do I achieve this? ...

git: how to add/commit removals made via vanilla rm?

I deleted a bunch of files / directories from a git repository using rm, the Finder, etc. I'm looking for a git command that'll record these to the index as marked for removal. (As if I had called git rm on them.) I understand git add -u will do this, along with a bunch of other things. I'd like my command to exclusively handle removal...

Use the commit message in a CVS pre-commit hook

Is it possible to use the commit message in a pre-commit hook in CVS? The CVS server is running remotely, and I access it using pserver. Ideally, I want to allow the commit if the files pass the filter or the commit message contains certain text. I don't have a choice to use another versioning system. ...

Advantages/Disadvantages of server-less Subversion for solo developer

TortoiseSVN is good for this? What about best practices to work fine? Any special care about tricky issues using that way? ...

Should I put my output files in source control?

I've been asked to put every single file in my project under source control, including the database file (not the schema, the complete file). This seems wrong to me, but I can't explain it. Every resource I find about source control tells me not to put generated output files in a source control system. And I understand, it's not "source...

Subversion oddity - svn info revision higher than last changed rev on project folder

Got something going on I can't explain. I have a working copy of my project - done svn update (which says: Updated to revision 1895), I know it's the latest. When I perform an svn info on the project folder, the Revision is 1895, but the Last Changed Rev is 1888. Inspecting the log using TortoiseSVN shows 1888 as the last revision, no ...

How to git svn fetch older history?

I have checkout'ed svn repo through git, but not from the first svn commit. Now I would like to extend the history a little back into past. Is it possible? ...

TFS: Merge best practices

Gentlemen, We have a standard branch architechture where we have a development branch for each team common integration branch (from where all development branches are branched) and production branch branched from Inregration. During development phase I make lots of commits into development branch. At the end of the phase I merge my cha...

Free Bug tracking software that integrates with Subversion?

I was wondering if there were any recommended free bug tracking and or ticketing software that integrates with Subversion. The only requirements are that the software runs on Windows(SQL Server backend and Windows Server). Thanks. ...

Can I create an ASP.NET MVC 2 project with multiple areas without referencing each Child in the parent area?

This is a follow-up question to my original query: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1791605/how-can-i-use-multiple-projects-to-separate-a-large-asp-net-mvc-site-into-departm Now that I have this working, is there a way to still have multiple project but not have to reference each child area from the parent project? Ideally I'd like ...

Version control of uploaded images to file system

After reading http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3748/storing-images-in-db-yea-or-nay I think that the file system is the right place for storing images. But I would like to know how you handle backup/version control of uploaded images in your different environments (dev/stage/prod) and for network load balancing? These problems is pret...

Choosing a version control system for a simple web site.

We're bringing some of our web development in-house and one of my goals is to get it under version control. Right now I'm looking mostly towards HG and Git, respectively. Bazaar was knocked out of the running due to some flaky behavior. The biggest points on my mind are: Access to our web host is FTP-only. This worries me a bit. The p...