Tagged Questions
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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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2answers
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Managing an undercover SVN repository
The project I am working on is version controlled by SVN, and the unspoken rule at work is to commit only when a new stable feature is added (in order to have a "clean" revision history with no ...
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1answer
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How can I clone an svn repository that changed layouts with git maintaining full history?
Problem
I want to clone an svn repo with git-svn.
The problem is the subversion repository changed layouts at r1235.
Specifics
From revision 1 to 1234, foo used the standard svn folder layout with:
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2answers
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Workflow: Using binary document formats in Git without locks (moving from subversion)
We're a software consultancy with a multitude of projects for different customers. We traditionally use Subversion, but are currently considering moving to Git.
A significant portion of the documents ...
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Why does git allow you to “change history”? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When should the VCS history of a project be deleted?
I am experienced using svn and recently started learning git. I was quite shocked to learn that git has features ...
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4answers
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How do professional application developers use version control systems, like GIT and Subversion?
I am a beginner developer and I have been wondering from the start, how do professional use tools like GIT and Subversion (I don't have a very good understanding about these tools), to fulfill their ...
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4answers
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What's so difficult about SVN merges? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I’m a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS?
Every once in a while, you hear someone saying that distributed version ...
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5answers
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Why do Git users say that Subversion does not have all the source code locally?
I'm only going on what I've read on SO, so forgive me, but all I read says that one major advantage of Git over Subversion is that Git gives all the source code to the developer locally, not having to ...
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1answer
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svn vs git for the sole developer? [closed]
If I am sole developer (I do not work in a team) working from my laptop (Windows OS and Linux VM) and backing up data to the cloud (Dropbox etc), then is git still better than svn for my version ...
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6answers
2k views
Specific reasons for still using Subversion? [closed]
I want to choose a version control system for my company. So far I know I have Git, Subversion and Mercurial.
These days I see that Git is the most used, so I'm left wondering: would there be any ...
8
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2answers
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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 ...
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1answer
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Tame a mess — backup & revisions across several systems? [closed]
I am a freelance mobile & back-end developer, and have many projects spread out over 4 systems - 2 Win7, Mac OSX and Ubuntu. Some of the projects need to be checked into the client's source ...
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10answers
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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 ...
4
votes
1answer
796 views
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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vote
2answers
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Will the customer benefit from a DVCS in any way?
Some of us can say a Distributed Version Control System (e.g. Mercurial, git) will have a positive impact on developers only out of the experience of using one (under the right conditions: higher ...
