A programming discipline for tracking, storing and retrieving revisions of source code.
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What benefits do I lose by not checking IntelliJ projects into source and using a project file generator instead?
I am about to embark on a Scala project with SBT. Do I lose any benefits by not keeping the IntelliJ IDEA project file in version control?
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Good idea to put bug numbers in a comment in the beginning of the source file?
Is it a good practice to put bug numbers in the file itself inside a comment right after copyright message? What does the greater developer community think of this practice?
MODIFIED (MM/DD/YY)
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What workflow would be preferable when working with Cloud9 and Git?
I'm working with a small team developing a web app. We're using Cloud9 to make collaboration and portability as simple as possible, but it's making it a difficult to determine what would be the best ...
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We use subversion - Should we place comments in my code anyways? [duplicate]
I brought up in a meeting an annoyance that code changes were not commented within the code itself. We use SVN (Subversion) for source control, and it was relayed to me that you can just go into SVN ...
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Techniques to avoid entangling git merges when working on an extensive change
I am absolutely miserable when I get in a situation where I have to merge other developers' changes into mine. When using git and working on a really extensive change, that happens a lot.
When I ...
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Visual studio online source control breaks debugging [migrated]
I'm completely new to source/version control and I recently decided to try out the Visual Studio online service (the renamed TFS online service). I ran into a problem and now I'm not sure if I'm doing ...
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How to deal with bad versioned software as SCM [closed]
I have been asked to be the SCM (Software Configuration Manager) in my company. I've read online documentation to learn what SCM is, what SCM does, etc.
Currently, the company works with a version ...
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Handling large and small changes specific to a customer
I've been going back and forth on how to handle this best.
The problem
C# project consisting of WCF services used by a Flex application.
A customer may request a functionality change that requires ...
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Where do I put the changelog to display the recent changes to the user?
I want to create a changelog for my application to display the set of recent changes to the user. But I'm not sure where I put it.
Do I create a text file and write in it? Where do I put this text ...
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Does cherry-pick just pull changes into the current working tree as uncommitted changes?
My team uses Mercurial for version control. Our development / version control routine is:
all been committing to the same branch
pulling for changes and rebasing our commits locally before pushing ...
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Is it reasonable to use git only on my local machine?
Is it ok to just use git only locally? I don't want to have to pay for a service that provides private repositories (such as Github) but I think git is a great way to organize my closed-source ...
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When should I stop committing to master on new projects?
Whenever a new project starts, it usually makes sense to start by committing straight to master until you've got something "stable", and then you start working in branches.
At least, this is how I ...
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Moving a multi-GB SVN repo to Git
Currently my company has a Visual Studio solition in an SVN repo that's organized as follows:
SolutionFolder (~3.5 GB)
|-> SolutionName.sln
|-> .. Some source code folders... (~250 MB)
|-> ...
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At what point is version control needed? [duplicate]
I work in embedded systems. Right now, my organization has two full-time programmers and two occasional programmers. It's rare that the same project is worked on by two programmers. All code is stored ...
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Is it worth using VCS (Version Control Softwares) for hobbystic/small/personal projects?
The question is fairly self-explainatory.
Is it worth using VCS (Version Control Softwares) for hobbystic/small/personal projects?
