Git is an open-source DVCS (Distributed Version Control System)
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How do I use Git to manage my development against new releases of open source software?
Lots of my development work involves expanding on open source software. For example, templates for Zen Cart, themes and plugins for Wordpress and the like.
I use git and bitbucket to manage my ...
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Code review tool for IntelliJ and Git [closed]
Please advice a code review system with IntelliJ IDEA integration that works with Git versin control system. We need to review the code before committing the code into repository. Is there a good ...
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Will git whine if I create my projects in multiple directories? [closed]
I'm new to git (and github). I work in Java and Python. Right now, I manage my projects in only one directory - let's call it Code and the folder is on my Desktop.
I want to group my projects by the ...
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Big project layout : adding new feature on multiple sub-projects
I want to know how to manage a big project with many components with version control management system.
In my current project there are 4 major parts.
Web
Server
Admin console
Platform.
The web ...
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Can you close branches in Git?
In Mercurial you can close a branch like this: hg commit --close-branch, this means the the branch will not be listed anymore but will still exist, and can still be listed if you use hg branches ...
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Is there any common naming convention for git commit summary?
I know I can write any words as commit summary.
My commit summaries always like : "a bug fixed", "new function achieved"....
However, when my project growing, I found my previous commit summaries ...
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Applying commits into another branch without merging
I have two git branches with almost the same code, but some minor changes in order to support different platforms.
I need to maintain these changes because I need them to run the software on ...
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What's a typical team size using a Git repo?
We've been using Git as our version control but as the team grows, there are more and more pains when it comes to getting all our changes onto a single branch ready for a deployment.
I'm wondering ...
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What could be the use of forking a repository in a github's organization?
I'm trying to figure it out some nice workflow for our company, and we have so far the main repository on the github's organization account and we all, the members of the team working on the branches ...
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External repository moved from Sourceforge (SVN) to GitHub, now what?
We've been getting the head revision of the JEDI Code library for a while, we only use it a tiny bit so never have bothered to manage which version we're getting. The problem is they appear to be ...
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git tagging comments - best practices
I've adopted a tagging system of x.x.x.x, and this works fine. However, you also need to leave a comment with your git tag. I've been using descriptions such as "fixes bug Y" or "feature X", but is ...
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Summarize changes (insertions and deletions) in Git
I want to look at how my code base has grown over time. GitHub has a nice +/- display along the list of checkins which gives a sense of this. Is there something similar I can use with my Google Code ...
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Git Branch Model for iOS projects with one developer
I'm using git for an iOS project, and so far have the following branch model:
feature_brach(usually multiple) -> development -> testing -> master
Feature-branches are short-lived, just ...
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Looking for good practices on managing branches and developers in Git
I a little while ago I joined a new development team and recently we had our first major release. We've used Git since the beginning of the project and by now are somewhat comfortable with it. ...
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Third party libraries in an open-source C# project
I'm going to start an open source project from scratch, using git (via github) to manage the source. The project will be written in C# and will depend on at least two external libraries (more are ...
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How to find method and class usages along git repositories
We got some code in a git repository that's used along different projects (with git different repositories), the problem is that we got now so many different projects that's difficult to track which ...
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Best way to structure a Git repository for Maven
I need some advice on how to structure our projects in Git. We use Java and Maven is our build tool. Maven kinda assumes all of your projects have a common ancestor eventually. Maven can also be a ...
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Best github repository layout for snippets in multiple programming languages
I have to create a github-presence for an open-source organization. The aim is to distribute code snippets and reference implementations in different programming languages.
These contributions are ...
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Using gerrit (or similar tool) on a team where multiple devs work on a single feature
We have a team of roughly ~8 devs who regularly work on the same feature over the course of a 3 week sprint. It isn't quite pair programming, but in our current workflow devs regularly push up ...
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Working with Multiple Versions of Websites (Git)
I have a main template like website I have made that will allow me to quickly roll out and make new websites on demand when I need them, for my personal use.
I'm wondering what is the best practice ...
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how safe/sane is it to use git for deployment on my webapp production server?
I started with sftp, then switched to WebDAV and I'm currently using rsync through ssh to deploy any updates/upgrades from my development server into my production server.
I'm still not very happy ...
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GitHub access to repo: only with URL? [closed]
I'm finishing my dissertation and want/need to provide the source code of some analysis scripts I've used. I did all the version control with git. Because I want to publish the results generated with ...
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So I'm a developing a workflow with vagrant+git…does this make sense?
Relevant Background Details
We've got two types of VMs (Utility Boxes & Web Servers) that developers need.
We are going to be using git for version control.
We have developers who have ...
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How do distributed version-control systems deal with fragmentation?
Here is the scenario:
X is the author of a software. X releases v1.0 on an open source license on Github and moves on. People interested in the software fork and improve the software. Now there are ...
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How can a beginning programmer begin to learn and apply testing best practices when developing software?
While learning to develop in PHP it has been easy enough that my short, one page, 20 line little scripts I could add "testing code" directly to my functions to figure out where I am or get close to ...
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Keeping git repositories on different hosts in sync
I am thinking about starting a small project and I want to make its versioning with git.
Bitbucket seems a good option for me with their free plan. I want to use it as the main tool for working with ...
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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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When to separate a project in multiple subprojects
I'd like to know if it makes sense to divide the project I'm working on in two repositories instead of one.
From what I can say:
Frontend will be written in html+js
Backend in .net
The backend ...
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Can you use GitHub via a web interface? [closed]
Can you use GitHub online without having to use Git or the native client? I'm trying to find the simplest way possible to upload some code without just dumping a tarball on my website.
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Why doesn't git merge adjacent lines without conflict?
I recently learned that when merging two branches in git, if there are changes on two adjacent lines git declares this a conflict. For example, if file test.txt has this content:
Line 1: A
Line 2: B
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Should we use a Maven Multi-Module Project in our Scenario?
The Situation
I'm currently working in project that develops several RESTful services that partly interact with each other. As an example:
Service A uses Service B
Service C uses nothing
Service D ...
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SourceTree app, how do I know what is my current branch?
I have branched from my develop branch bugfix/issue2 to work on a bugfix. Now that it's done I want to merge this branch bugfix/issue2 back onto develop but it's asking me if I want to merge into my ...
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Using one repository for the foundation of another
I have an existing website theme that I have built. I've been using github to maintain this theme, let's call it dragon. We are changing the theme entirely but we're using the existing theme as a ...
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Git: rebasing and keeping current to a remote branch - accepted practices?
When developing on a long-running branch (here defined as living longer than one release), what's the most accepted practice(s) to keeping the branch current with its origin while keeping the history ...
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What is the netiquette for forking other people's open source projects? [duplicate]
I started to get more and more engaged in open source development and I was wondering if there are any guidelines on how to properly document and maintain a fork?
For example, let's say you fork a ...
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Team switching from TFS Source Control to TFS with Git, not sure how to handle complex project structure
I've used git for my personal projects for years, but that's always working alone, not needing to branch much, etc.
Our development team at work has decided we are definitely switching to git, and as ...
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How do I share different files in a git repo with different people?
In a single directory with a Git root folder, I have a bunch of files. I am working on one of those files, X.py, with my friend Alice. The other files I am working on with other people. I want Alice ...
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To integrate git versions as build numbers or not?
A colleague and I have been taking turns debating/discussing the issues/merits of integrating a version derived from the current git repository into our code whenever it builds.
We think the merits ...
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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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Steps to open source a small project [duplicate]
I've been working for a couple of years on a small project, almost by myself, with the eventual help of some colleagues. The project is getting out of my hands, because the size of the code is growing ...
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Git Workflow - turning a local reposity into a “central” one
I have a local repository with a toy project that has turned out to be more serious than I had thought. So from a single development branch where I have carelessly committed, I have started to use ...
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How can I get git to clone untracked files
I'm new to git.
I'm using a development platform called automation studio.
This development tool creates all sorts of files and directories which it needs to maintain runtime and IO information for ...
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Git submodule vs Git clone
I am working on an opensource project on github.
It has a subdirectory /Vendor in which it has a copy of several external libraries. Original maintainer of the project updated this directory with ...
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Is git-flow in the spirit of git? [closed]
The question is pretty self-explanatory. I've had some experience with git-flow, and not much more true experience with plain git before that. (I was using it more as a backup-provider.) I'm ...
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Is it a good practice to have a remote branch for each developer?
Is it considered a good practice to have a remote branch for each individual developer in the project?
We're using Git with the following branches:
master
release
develop
If each developer had ...
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Has anyone used git as a runtime datastore in their application? [closed]
I used to work on a document workflow system, and it basically implemented a half-baked version control system for documents; using a database for versioning information and a filestore for the files. ...
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using testing branches in git
We have someone (let's call him Ted) that is responsible for testing new features and bug fixes.
We're using git(hub). master should be/is always deployable and development is where we commit/merge ...
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code review with git-flow and github
With regular git and github I can do a code review by simply creating a pull request of the feature branch I'm working on to the master branch. How would I do code reviews with git-flow? With workflow ...
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Is a merging strategy like Git Flow really an anti-pattern?
My company is using Git, and is using a peculiar branching scheme - work is done in master, and branches are reserved for releases. This works fine, so long as all of the work done in an iteration ...
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Proper Git setup between designers and developers?
Basically we now have 2 developers for an iOS project, 2 developers for an Android project and 1 designer doing designs for both projects.
Right now, the way we exchange designs and images is through ...
