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Is it a good idea to create multiple heads with Mercurial? [closed]
I just made a commit that I want to reverse, but I want to keep the bad commit in history. So, I hg update to the previous (good) commit. Then I keep working.
This leaves me with a new head: the ...
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Why not commit unresolved changes?
In a traditional VCS, I can understand why you would not commit unresolved files because you could break the build. However, I don't understand why you shouldn't commit unresolved files in a DVCS ...
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Can an open source solution match or surpass Team Foundation Server's features? [closed]
Team Foundation Server offers a version control system, but with many more side features, such as bug tracking, user stories, project planning, and it is all integrated into visual studio.
Someone ...
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Any reasons not to use multiple version control systems?
I'm working on a project which uses GIT as the main version control system for trunk, the official branches and most sub-projects/unofficial branches. As such, I want to make my own branch use GIT to ...
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Am I shooting myself in the foot if I use Mercurial for Rails development?
I'm a Rails developer and I prefer Mercurial over Git. However, I know that the Rails community is very pro-Git. So my question is it possible that my choice of version control system would turn back ...
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HG: fork web app project to separate API code from app code
I have a web app thats been in active development for about 8 months now and its becoming apparent that the project has a need to maintain a separation between app specific code and our OO Javascript ...
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What is the canonical approach to using a VCS right from a project's infancy?
Background
I've used VCS (mainly git) in the past to manage many existing projects and it works great. Typically with an existing project, I would check in each change I make to the code that either ...
4
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1answer
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Why do Git/Mercurial repositories use less space?
I've read on several discussions here and on SO that DVCS repositories use about the same or less space than their centralised counter-parts. I may have missed it, but I haven't found a good ...
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Which revision control system to use for 2 semester capstone course? [closed]
For CS undergraduate students working on a 2-semester capstone course without any prior exposure to revision control systems, what would be a good one to use?
Desirable qualities would be easy to ...
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Training a company to use a DVCS coming from a CVCS mindset, is it as hard as one would think?
So, I'm preparing to consider the outcome of training a lot of people (>25) to use Mercurial coming from a centralized mindset. I've done it with individuals and had success with it, although the time ...
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Is switching from a CVCS to a DVCS a considerable bandwidth save?
So, I'm in a big geographically-distributed company, we use perforce and I'm starting to make the case for a DVCS with a whitepaper I was requested to write.
I was thinking that one of the arguments ...
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What is the differences between committing and patching?
I am quite new to source control and would like to know the differences between committing and patching? Also, how/when a patch is use and can it be used on a web application?
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4answers
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Source control workflow for managing a software platform
I'm in charge of a software platform, written in C, that is used to provide a variety of projects to clients. I am trying to improve the workflow for people using this platform, and looking at ...
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6answers
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Using SVN poorly - is Mercurial the answer?
At work we use SVN, but in name only. We don't branch or merge. We keep two copies of the repository, one serving as the "tag" branch that gets copied when we do a deployment and kept for bug fixes ...
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4answers
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Using Mercurial repository inside a Git one: Feasible? Sane?
I am thinking on creating a Mercurial repository under a Git repository.
e.g.
..../git-repository/directory/hg-repo/
The 2 repositories
Is it possible to manage (keeping your sanity)? How similiar ...
