versioning

Document management system: what to use as document storage backend?

I want to make a document management system. What do profesional sollutions (Alfresco, Liferay social office, others) use for storing and versioning documents? What else can I use? Key points: storage space optimization (deltas, compression ...) versioning ability to index docs (can be external) ...

Source control: what version numbering should be used for branches?

If a branch is created in source control, what version number should be used if there is a release of the branched code? eg. If the last version number was v1.2.8 and a branch is created, what should the next version numbers of the branch and the main trunk be? ...

Can I edit the message of an older revision in Bazaar?

How can I edit an older revision's message to more correctly describe its changes? ...

File version vs. assembly version

I have a .NET (FW 2.0) library which is used by a COM (vb6) application and also by a .NET application. The TLB generated for COM is registered which a version consisting of the first two digits of the "assembly version". For example, 1.2.5.7 assembly version becomes version 1.2 of the TLB. This is very inconvenient, because sometimes ...

What does M1 mean in a maven repository?

I've been using maven for a while, and I often review repositories before selected what version I want to use. I don't entirely understand what the extensions mean. I know that when I see extensions like -RC1 and -RC2 that means release candidates. When I see a version without an extension, I assume that means a released version. Bu...

Model for versioned backups on MS Windows

Hi All, I've been thinking about a model for saving snapshots of a windows filesystem. Obviously you only want to backup new files or files that have changed - for stuff that hasn't changed you don't want to make another copy. rshapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ (for linux) accomplishes this by creating a new snapshot directory for each...

Versioning and common code-bases with Eclipse

Hi there, I'd like to bring out an Android app in the near future, so I was wondering how to support a couple of funcitonalities I have got used whilst developing for J2ME and iPhone first the versioning. With J2ME (using NetBeans as IDE) I had the option to auto-increment the softwwares version every time I compiled it. I was wonderin...

Teamcity 5 Automatic Versioning on Build / Run

We have the following numbering for our development (major version).(uat release number).(qa release number).(build number) We have three Build configurations per branch Build after commit (build number++) Build and push to QA (qa ++) Build and push to UAT (uat ++) The major version is set only when branching and is manual. What I...

possible solutions for version control of hierarchical documents

Hello internet techno-persons, I am writing a project for users to create documents from document elements (basically images and html fragments). The top level documents will be under basic version control (where every save increments the version number, and all previous versions are kept in the db) The document elements will also nee...

Versioning in SQL Tables - how to handle it?

Here's a fictional scenario with some populated data. For tax purposes, my fictional company must retain records of historical data. For this reason, I've included a version column to the table. TABLE EMPLOYEE: (with personal commentary) |ID | VERSION | NAME | Position | PAY | +---+---------+------------+----------+-----+ | 1 | ...

How does providing updates to an app work in WP7?

If I build an app for Windows Phone 7 and release V1 they purchase it and download it from the app store. Now let's say there's a bug or I release a new version. How do I publish a new version of the app without them having to pay for downloading a new version of the app? ...

SharePoint 2007: Page is checked out by another user. How can I force an end to the check-out?

A page has been checked out by someone who I am not able to contact. I need to update the page but cannot check it out until the current check-out is finished. How can I force the current check-out to be discarded? ...

Is there a tool to compare code modifications based on the call stack?

I wonder if there is a code comparison tool that take into account the call hierarchy of your code. Something like this: you provide the two projects to compare and which method and the file containing it to use as the head of the hierarchy. The tool would extract all methods potentially called by this method (polymorphism and dynamic ca...

what is version of an assembly?

i am confuse with what is version of an assembly? ...

Why isn't Microsoft branching C#, .NET, CLR for major changes (horizontal versioning)?

This isn't like new versions where newer versions will still have backwards compatibility. What I mean is something like, when the designers of C#, .NET, CLR realize that they made a mistake or they overlooked something that could be hugely beneficial but now they couldn't pursue it because of backwards compatibility, they could branch ...

Downsides to using querystrings to version static files?

It seems that in order to force users to refresh cached static files (e.g., .css, .js) some sites (e.g., stackoverflow.com) append querystrings to the end of files. For example: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://sstatic.net/stackoverflow/all.css?v=9ea1a272f146"&gt; I think this is a good idea, and am inclined to sta...

Tfs2010 Build Number and Assembly File Versions & MSBuild targets

Hi all, I read John Robbins' article TFS 2010 Build Number and Assembly File Versions: Completely In Sync with Only MSBuild 4.0, and I'm wondering about the best way to go about integrating this. The download for the article has two files, one is a targets file and one is a proj file. The targets file has a number of tasks to scrape ...

How should I control versions of my Perl Moose objects?

I'm a Moose newbie and I wonder if the common our $VERSION = "0.001"; $VERSION = eval $VERSION; should also be used in Moose packages, or Moose has some alternative way for version control. Couldn't find a reference in Moose docs. ...

Generating diff based on versions

The scenario is that I have a MySQL DB on the server side, whose content is regularly updated/changed and I have 5-10 Linux clients... each of which would have a copy of the DB, and would need to have a significant portion of the DB in memory. I want to be able to get what version the client has, and then send the latest-updated data th...

Can one move documents among folders in SP and retain versioning.

We are improving our folder structure as we go. Consequently, we are moving "versioned" files from one folder to another. When we do, the version reverts from 1.0 to .1. Is there a way to move files from one Document Library to another, both of which have versioning turned on, and retain the version numbers from the original folders? T...