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When should I make the first commit to source control?
I'm never sure when a project is far enough along to first commit to source control. I tend to put off committing until the project is 'framework-complete,' and I primarily commit features from then ...
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Development processes, the use of version control, and unit-testing [closed]
Preface
I've worked at quite a few "flat" organizations in my time. Most of the version control policy/process has been "only commit after it's been tested". We were constantly committing at each ...
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cost trade-offs for deploying changes to prod, stored procs vs. LINQ
Some context for thisi question: it is not about development time over the entire iteration of development, but just the stage of deploying changes from dev to prod environment. "LINQ" here really ...
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What's the best way to handle multiple simultaneous “streams” of development in version control?
My department is planning on working on our next several releases (spanning a year) simultaneously. The powers that be are advocating we support this by refactoring all affected code into classes ...
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Moving from one man project to team project in the future. What should I be doing now in preparation and what can wait?
To elaborate I am interested in knowing what people think you need to put in place while still a one man project (team source control, documentation, builds etc) and what things don't need to be done ...
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Why fork a library for your own application?
Why should a programmer ever fork a library for inclusion in a widely used application?
I ask this question because I was reading an article about why Chromium isn't packaged for many Linux distros ...
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Branching and versioning strategy for shared libraries
These posts seem related, but my brain is starting to melt, trying to think this through :P
My employer has just started using source control, primarily because before they hired more developers, the ...
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What is the most effective/efficient way to develop an application with multiple people without source control?
Introduction to my situation
I work for a small web development company. We have a team of four ASP.NET developers, including me. Almost all of our projects (> 98%) are one-person projects that take ...
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Managing Eclipse projects in source control
I've been using eclipse for a long time to do development. One of the problems I've come across when working on other people's projects is if they come from source control, some of the eclipse project ...
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how do you document your development process?
My current state is a mixture of spreadsheets, wikis, documents, and dated folders for my input/configuration and output files and bzr version control for code.
I am relatively new to programming ...
