Decentralized version control (DVCS) keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network.
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Stopping developers committing to the wrong branch on DVCS
The problem
I am on a software project which has about 10 developers, we share source code via Mercurial. We have a development and production branch per release. Repeatedly during the course of the ...
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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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Feature branches, beta branches, and scrapped features
I've been thinking a lot about best practices regarding branching in distributed version control systems such as git an mercurial (the two dvcs's I have experience with and use on a daily basis).
The ...
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Release Management Tools with DVCS (Mercurial)
My development team is migrating from SVN to Mercurial. Having researched DVCS best practices, it has been suggested that we develop against feature branches of the repo mainline, test them ...
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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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Shorter release cycle with DVCS
Does the choice of using a DVCS over a CVCS actually make for shorter release cycles? If so, what makes software release cycles shorter and what are the arguments for this?
Related to pull request? ...
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Branching breaks continous integration?
I think this article, A Successful Git Branching Model, is very well known among experienced DVCS users.
I use hg mostly, but I would argue this discussion is fine for any DVCS.
Our current ...
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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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Why can Perforce be a better version control system? [closed]
I've seen some people love and some loathe Perforce. As users or administrators with experience with other version control systems (free cookie to the ones with DVCS experience [git, Mercurial]), what ...
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Is Perforce as good at merging as DVCSs?
I've heard that Perforce is very good at merging, I'm guessing this has to do with that it tracks changes in the form of changelists where you can add differences across several files in a single ...
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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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Is a “model” branch a common practice?
I just thought it could be a good thing to have a dedicated version control branch for all database schema changes and I wanted to know if anyone else is doing the same and what have the results been.
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Is a code review which uses only code comments a good idea?
Preconditions
Team uses DVCS
IDE supports comments parsing (like TODO and etc.)
Tools like CodeCollaborator are expensive for budget
Tools like gerrit are too complex for install or not usable
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Can DVCSs enforce a specific workflow?
So, I have this little debate at work where some of my colleagues (which are actually in charge of administrating our Perforce instance) say that workflows are strictly a process thing, and that the ...
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I am a git user confused by mercurial's branching. How am I supposed to track small changes?
I've always used git before, but I want to contribute to python so now I have to learn mercurial and I find it very frustrating.
So, I've made a couple of small patches and I wanted to track them as ...
