A programming discipline for tracking, storing and retrieving revisions of source code.
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Manage version control with a central development server (LAMP)
I'm working in a small team with up to 5 (web)developers. Because our team is growing frequently and we ran into problems with multiple people working on the same code we decided to set up a VCS.
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Good Version Control Guidelines from a Development/Collaboration Perspective?
At our company we have started outsourcing some of our development.
This has worked somewhat well. However, we are having a hard time getting them to properly use version control. They are familiar ...
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How to integrate SQL Server 2008 R2 Reports on web site [migrated]
I am creating a site that is mainly used to view reports. The database is SQL Server 2008 R2 Express with Reporting Services. I was thinking of using Business Intelligence Development Studion to ...
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how to stay efficient when a build is almost always broken
I work in a middle sized team which shares the same source code and while have a continues integration in place, but as all of us has to work in the same branch, the build is almost always broken.
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Responsibilities of Build Script and Build Server
I need some clarifications on the responsibilities of the Build Script and the Build Server.
I read several articles on the Net about continuous integration and builds. Including
The F5 Key Is Not ...
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Is it possible to integrate MS Project Server with SVN
We have been using Hosted SVN + Fogbugz for our source control and task/issue tracking. Our developers are very comfortable with SVN and we are hesitant to switch source control (e.g. TFS) providers ...
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How safe & trustworthy are hosting sites such as sourceforge, github or bitbucket for closed-source projects?
I am considering using sourceforge, bitbucket or github for managing source control for my business. I have open projects and I participate in open projects such as gcc. But I also have a business ...
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Distributed Issue Tracking
Distributed issue tracking seems like a belting idea to me, but it has never really taken off in a big way. Is there a good reason for that?
I am aware of:
bugz everywhere
too complex to set up
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Do I check generated code in to source control or not? [duplicate]
I'm developing a .Net application that uses google protocol buffers. Historically the application used the approach, advocated by the protobuf-net team, of decorating the classes with attributes ...
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Should a new class refactored out of an existing one have history pointing back to it's progenitor
If I split one class into two classes should both classes have history in source control tracing back to the original class that contained both; or should the new class be added as a new file without ...
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How to deal with undesired commits that break long-running release builds?
We ran into an unfortunate situation at work recently and I've been wondering what we can do to avoid similar problems in the future.
We make embedded systems. The FPGA code is in one SVN repository ...
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Kiln - Mercurial and Git limitation [closed]
According to this blog post: Kiln now supports repositories accessible from both Git and Mercurial
We decided that the awesome way would be to make Kiln fully bilingual.
It stores every repo in ...
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Source control system for binary files
At work we have a legacy system written in Visual FoxPRO.
Everything in foxpro is a table, even forms, so basically if you open a form file with a text editor you don't learn much.
Does anyone know ...
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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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Contributor's actions after rejected pull request
Imagine, there is an open-source project with a Maintainer and a Contributor. Both of them have theirs repos exported to some repository hosting (github, bitbucket, sourceforge --- whatever, but they ...
