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I'm a Subversion geek, why I should consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS?
I try to understand the benefits of distributed version control system (DVCS).
I found Subversion Re-education and this article by Martin Fowler very useful.
Mercurial and others DVCS promote a ...
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git for personal (one-man) projects. Overkill?
I know, and use, two version control systems: Subversion and git. Subversion, as of now, gets used for personal projects where I am the only developer and git gets used for open source projects and ...
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Should I understand SVN before I jump to GIT?
I work in a department where no one has ever used source control before, including myself.
I am trying to push the concept. I have spent a little while researching SVN. I some basics learned. I can ...
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Do DVCSes discourage continuous integration?
Say there is a team of ten agile developers. Every day they each pick a task from the board, commits several changes against it, until (by the end of the day) they have completed the task. All ...
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Business case for decentralized version control systems
I searched and couldn't find any business reasons why git/mercurial/bazzr systems are better than centralized systems (subversion, perforce).
If you were trying to sell a DVCS to a non-technical ...
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We're Subversion Geeks and we want to know the benefits of Mercurial
Having read I'm a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS.
I have a related follow up question. I read that question and read the recommended links ...
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What version control system can manage all aspects?
A few months ago I dug into Subversion and GIT and was disappointed. They handle SOURCE CODE fine but not other aspects. For example, a web site under version control needs to manage file/directory ...
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How do you achieve a numeric versioning scheme with Git?
My organization is considering moving from SVN to Git. One argument against moving is as follows:
How do we do versioning?
We have an SDK distribution based on the NetBeans Platform. As the svn ...
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Is SVN out of style? [closed]
It's been only several years since I migrated from Visual Source Safe to SVN. And SVN for me is still kinda "WOW! I can do so many things! SVN is so cool!"
But many people around me keep saying "SVN? ...
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git / other VCS - how often to commit?
I've been a programmer now for over 11 years, and am just starting to get into version control for real. The places I've worked at have never really used version control (one committed at the end of ...
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Big source tree refactor ahead - what tool to use?
We are doing a major refactor of the layout of our source tree. Masses of files are being moved, folders are being renamed, etc. etc.
We currently have everything in SVN.
We're going to move to ...
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Agile development deployment process. Where do QA and Business Owners test?
I've been reading up a lot lately on various web application deployment processes using SVN or GIT, with a view to redesigning how we currently deploy where I work.
As is the way with many flavours ...
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Are there any equivalent articles similar to hginit.com for git (and moving from SVN)?
I'm wanting to get the most out of git and not just be using it as a translated form of SVN. I've read hginit's article about coming from SVN. That article of course though is concerned with ...
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Are there any statistics that show the popularity of Git versus SVN?
I'm writing an essay, and would like to have some empiric evidence, perhaps longitudinal data where the popularity of these technologies is compared over a period of some years.
Are there any ...
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How should I control the versions of my project on GitHub
I am trying to spend as much time as I can on GitHub nowadays (even I am the only person in team at work) to really feel how it is going to be like for a real world corporate application.
One ...
