version-control

Team Foundation server: help for starters

hi all, I have installed TFS on my local dev machine and I want to "version control" my small project using TFS. However I have having trouble configuring TFS on my machine to get started. Can you please point me to some basic , starter internet resources for installing, configuring TFS. Thanks ...

How can I view repository-side changes before checking out?

We're in the process of migrating a big, old codebase from StarTeam to SVN. Everything's going really smoothly, except that a lot of people are missing one of StarTeam's features. In StarTeam, it can query the repository and display a list for you of all files by status. It shows all unchanged files, all files that you've changed, all...

Shared directories in Mercurial

I have a development project in Mercurial. In the project I have multiple directories scattered about which all should contain the same basic files (CSS, images, etc). I'd like to have all of the directories point to the same underlying directory, so that if I edit a file in one place, it is updated everywhere else. Basically a UNIX so...

Bundling version control software with product

Hello, I was wondering if its possible to bundle version control software with a product, so customers can use it to version control the configuration files required for the final product to run. So far, searching has only given me pointers to using SVN/Git etc. for versioning source code within an organization. Are there any examples o...

With Sharepoint 2010 Excel Services how can I get values from a spreadsheet with version control

I can get the values from a xlsx file and bind them to a gridview within a webpart in sharepoint 2010. But I do want to use version-control for this document library containing spreadsheets. Is there any way for me to select the specific versioned spreadsheet and use it for reading data. For example: abc.xlsx (version 3.0) abc.xlsx (...

How manage references in SVN/Visual Studio?

For a long time looking for a way to manage references, I haven't found any ideal way. The main problems are: 1-) Should I include all projects that I use in same Solution and reference the Project? Or reference just the dll file? 2-) If I should reference dll file, the best way is to create a ReferencedAssemblies inside each project ...

Best Code Repository for Web Project

Hello, I am starting to build a website, I need to know what it's the best option to manage my code and different versions of the same, any suggestion will be highly appreciated. ...

Deleting an SVN Branch

I created a branch of an svn project called 'features', and now whenever I try to update said project, it brings with it a features folder, which contains another copy of the project from the branch. Is there a way to remove the branch from the repository completely so that this doesn't happen anymore? ...

Spurious dialogs "Project exists, overwrite from source control" when opening solution

Just recently, when I open a solution in VS2010, I get modal dialog boxes in the form "Project c:\XXXX\YYY\ZZZZ.csproj, which you are getting from the source control store, already exists. Would you like to overwrite it with the store version, or leave your local copy?" With the options Overwrite, Overwrite All, Leave and...

Mercurial: keeping a long term branch up-to-date with the latest changes from default?

We are currently reworking a big part of our code base. We choose to create a separate branch for this since the rework will take several months and we should be fixing bugs and updating the default with new features in the meantime. Obviously we want our rework branch not drift away from the default too much. We decided to merge the de...

Quantify Branch-specific changes in Bazaar

I've been working on a fork of critical component of our source tree, and I'm interested to see how many changes have been made. I originally bzr branch'd the project, but because of paralell development I have been doing a bzr merge to stay up-to-date. How can I see only the changes I've been commiting in this branch? THANK YOU! ...

What rules does software version numbering follow?

I have been developing some software and want to give it version numbers. How do I do this? How is it that some software gets two versions like 1.3v1.1 or some have 3 numbers - 4.0.1 What is the method behind all this? Thanks. ...

How to undelete a module fro a JEDI Version System project

I deleted by mistake a file (pas+dfm) from JEDI. How can I undelete? I don't want to lose the module history. I am using JEDI CLient 2.4.5.0. ...

Converting many CVS modules into a single SVN repository

I have a rather large CVS repository that I am looking to only convert a handful of modules into a single Subversion repository. I have been correctly guided to using cvs2svn for the conversion and have even gotten as far as building my own options file. I do not need to retain tags or branches, but I would like to retain the revision hi...

Is there a special name (like HEAD, FETCH_HEAD) for the root commit on the current branch in a git repository?

I find myself referring to the root commit for various reasons. I usually make a tag called first or root to make it easier, but I have been dealing with quite a few repositories lately and even this manual tagging is getting quite tedious. Is there an easy way to refer to the root commit, something similar to HEAD or FETCH_HEAD? ...

XCode Project Libraries and Version Control

Hello folks, I've just discovered, via the Objective Flickr API, that you can add projects into xcode as secondary libraries for your own project. It's very nifty, and it's finally let me get on top of the Flickr stuff I wanted to do. Problemo! I need to bung this stuff into version control. Presumably the .proj file is what keeps a re...

How do you ensure repeatable builds with an artifact repository like nexus or artifactory vs. checking libs into source control?

In all of the artifact repository's that I've evaluated I have to see how I can maintain my repository in such a way that I can archive old stuff so I'm not looking at thousands of artifacts in the tree while still being able to have repeatable builds of old software. Not being able to rename/move/archive old artifacts means that they h...

Do you store planning documents in source control? If so, where?

I'm working on a small, personal project and am using Subversion to manage the source code. I have a couple of small planning files - simple text documents explaining where I want to go with the project and some ideas worth keeping track of about what I've already done - that I think should be under source control as well. What I don't ...

Version Control System for small, in-house team

We are a small, in-house development team (5 people) who are developing a few Joomla (PHP) components for release. We need a version control system of some sort (preferably with some soft of integrated bug tracking) and none of us have any experience. We currently all simply work on the same files on a central development server but ne...

Multiple github accounts on the same computer?

Trying to work on my both my actual "work" repos, and my personal repos on git hub, from my computer. The work account was set up first, and everything works flawlessly. My personal account, however cannot seem to push to my personal repo, which is set up under a different account/email. I've tried copying my work key up to my persona...