SVN is short for "Subversion" and is an open source version control system
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Migration from SVN to Git. Multiple depedant projects for Continous Integration
I'm in charge of switching our 10+ years old code base from SVN to Git. Currently we have one single monolithic repository containing all of our projects. We have shared libraries and multiple ...
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Branching strategy for moving feature branch between versions
At my workplace, we use an SVN repository for the source code, which holds the main application and some other projects, and for the main application it is structured like this:
- trunk
- app
- ...
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Git - What issues arise from working directly on master?
I have seen lots of advice about git branching models and the most common opinion seems to be that making changes directly on the master branch is a bad idea.
One of our co-workers is quite happy ...
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SVN - Branch merge process
We use SVN for our version control and have a trunk for minor changes and a branch for more significant changes and also for the devs to be able to work off the same code base.
We regularly do trunk ...
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Automatic Resolution in SVN for CSV File
Situation
We are a large team of developers, using SVN for source control on our project. One of our files, FileTracker.cvs, is very large: it contains metadata about almost every file in our repo. ...
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SVN best practices - different code logic in branches
While working with one project I was assigned to, I noticed a small problem with our SVN strategy. A few months ago, someone created a new feature branch from our trunk. In this branch he implemented ...
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Version control problem
I heavily use excel and csv at my workplace.
File 0 excel file
Initial file is a excel file. Lets call thia file zero. This may or may not change with time depending upon the requirement of the ...
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How bad of an idea is it to alter a file in a pre- or post-commit hook?
My team is using SVN to store a lot more than just source code - we are storing all kinds of files. A process I'm working on designing is used to generate diff reports whenever a certain Excel ...
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Is there a way to comment a source file using a separate file?
I'm using a large and complex library including R and C++ code, available online via a subversion repository. Trying to figure out how it works I took a bunch of notes in the source code itself, in ...
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Tracking number of code lines added/removed by me
I do like to write code, but what I like even more is to remove code! Following the mantra "code that does not exist cannot have bugs", if we can accomplish the same result with less code, we will ...
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Setup SVN repository with multiple applications and libaries while maintaining specific versioning per application
In our project team we have one SVN repository which holds multiple applications and libraries (all QT projects)
/trunk/App_X/
/trunk/App_Y/
/trunk/App_Z/
/trunk/Lib_A/
/trunk/Lib_B/
/trunk/Lib_C/
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Working on the same file for two tickets
The company policy where I work is that code cannot be committed to SVN until a code review is complete. This is sensible enough as we don't want broken code ending up in the repo, but it does give us ...
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Repository UUID equivalent
I am converting an old Subversion repository to Git. Here is an example:
$ svn info http://alfa.com/bravo/charlie
Path: charlie
URL: http://alfa.com/bravo/charlie
Relative URL: ^/charlie
Repository ...
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Suggestions: Good format for short/commit messages for User Story and Sub tasks
I would like your opinion regarding a good style/format for short messages when committing into a repository (GIT or SVN).
Considering we are using a feature branch development approach, with one ...
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Should we use a monorepo?
My team is planning a migration from subversion to git. We support 3 applications... 1 is primarily for internal users, 1 is for corporate "partners" and 1 is for end users. These applications share ...
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How do I share SVN trunk with multiple branches? [duplicate]
I have a project that I have been working on for a couple years. The project has gone fine. The sales team has struck a deal with a separate client that wants to have its own changes to the existing ...
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Merge bug fixes from trunk in old branches
We are now in the process of switching from svn to git (after a year spent on convincing people, yay!) in my company.
So far, this is all for the better but there is one little thing that we ...
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If you decide that branching is a bad thing, then why use Git over SVN? [closed]
I have used Git and Mercurial a bit over the past ten years and appreciate and prefer them, but most of my experience is with SVN. If it is decided within a corporate programming group that branching ...
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Workflow, editing things not in your current task
Usually when I program, I have a clear task ahead of me, but find annoying things I'd like to clean up as I go on.
Here I see three options:
Do it later (may forgot/have to spend time adding a ...
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Restructuring SVN repo for migrating to git [duplicate]
We currently have a SVN repo structured like so
/trunk/library/libA
/libB
/libC
.
.
/trunk/tools/toolA
/toolB
.
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Is there value is putting test/build outputs under source control?
My colleagues insist on ploughing every bit of output data they can into subversion. I can't see the value in this practice and would much rather use a file system. The key offenders are build and ...
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Version control of a website : dev/production front-end files
I'm trying to think of a better way to version control our website projects. Keep in mind I'm only a front-end dev so I don't have a profound knowledge of VCS.
Workflows are changing, and past ...
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How do I bundle library files for use in branches?
I work at a company which has it's source code managed using subversion. Our code base is huge (800MB) but we want to work with branching. For what I noticed is that when branching, SVN just ...
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Isn't there a substantial problem with SVN tags?
A common practice for SVN tags is to tag different releases in order to be able to find them with ease later. As I understand it, tagging is the same thing as branching, that is in two cases, it just ...
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Migrating from SourceForge to Github, should I delete the SF repository entirely?
It's long overdue, but after a few too many horror stories I'm finally moving a long-running project of mine from SourceForge to GitHub.
Simple question: Should I delete my SourceForge project ...
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SVN shared modules / dependency management
I'm working with a small-ish team of developers. We're using Subversion for version control. Much of the software is for embedded systems.
We want to set up a reasonably convenient way to share ...
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What to do about large svn history when moving to git?
Edit: unlike some similar questions such as Moving a multi-GB SVN repo to Git
or
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/540535/managing-large-binary-files-with-git
My scenario doesn't involve several ...
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How can I split a repository that contains many projects which share the same build system?
I've been working on the past years on a research compiler suite, which builds several executables and libraries. It has a build system (namely bootstrapper) that looks into the ./src/bin directory ...
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PHP and Subversion workflow [duplicate]
I'm working on a project in a small team at the moment working on a webapp. We originally had 3 on the team with a lead dev and now we've grown to 7 and a lead dev.
At the moment our workflow is this:...
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Conventions for revision control with Maven/Jenkins
For a software project I am working on, we have a 'dev => QA => production' methodology. That is, we create a release candidate (deployed to Artifactory), give it to QA (deploy to QA systems and a QA ...
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One commit in two branches: what happened?
I work on a project using maven and svn.
Today after a svn update, the maven build was failing on the svn trunk. When I looked in the svn logs, I saw something strange: a commit affecting two ...
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Single branch Strategy in Agile development
Currently in our project we have trunk , release branches also hotfix brances , we are planning to maintain single branch strategy instead maintain multiple. can any one explain what are all the ...
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Should I keep font assets in git repo?
Switched from svn to git, and I can feel that several repos with heavy assets feel, well, heavy.
I never noticed this heaviness with svn. There is a huge difference when checking out whole history of ...
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Where should documentation files be saved in SVN?
At the moment I am using one repository for project with the following "default" structure:
project
- trunk
- docs
- branches
- tags
I would like to know if is a good practice store the docs ...
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Repository strategy for multiple interconnected components with small differences
At my work we have multiple products.. productA, productB, ... these products reference multiple components. componentA, componentB.. there are also shared components sharedA, sharedB... etc.. which ...
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Is it good to split big repository into smaller ones to have separate history/issue etc or keep it big? [duplicate]
We are currently porting our huge svn repo to git and we are thinking to export subdirectories of repository, each one containing source code of independent binaries, documentation or robot tests, ...
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Setting up Version Control on my Development Server
I'm looking into the possibilities of integrating Version Control so that me and my team can work on code at the same time without having to worry about overwriting each others work. Previously this ...
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How to enforce good/better source code control practices?
I suspect that I'm focusing on the wrong problem so I will first describe what I think the problem is before presenting the possibly suboptimal solution I envision.
Current Situation:
Currently my ...
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Is there some way to mark which branch is the latest in subversion?
We're reworking our process with subversion at the moment, and one of the things we're doing is making branches for each release target in our demo environment so that you can test a release that has ...
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Choosing the right Release management & Branching strategy
I am working on a project wherein we are to use SVN as a source repository and we need to identify a branching strategy. I am aware of branch by release & branch by feature strategies to certain ...
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What is svn cat abbreviating in Subversion?
Subversion offers the svn cat command which retrieves a file as it existed in a particular revision number and displays it.
Sample usage:
$ svn cat -r 3 http://svn.red-bean.com/repos/test/readme.txt
...
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Using SVN with multiple developers but without creating branches
I'm a computer science TA working with some students in a senior capstone course (effectively, a consultant for a small team). I met with them to discuss how to use version control, and they're in an ...
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How come centralized source control solutions don't do branching in place
With centralized source control like Perforce and SVN, when they create a branch, they create a whole new directory. However, git and other distributed source control solutions, in my experience, are ...
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Is it a newbie mistake to avoid branching? [duplicate]
My team is new to versioning and we're trying to keep things simple, as to not overwhelm ourselves with tools-headaches. Also, our product can't be compiled and run locally, so our work is actually ...
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Is the inconvenience about merging in SVN prior to v1.5 obsolete by now when lack of metadata isn't the case anymore?
I'm getting started with SVN and so many sources say that merging is very difficult in SVN as compared to DVCS tools. The most recent questions I could find here on SE are from 2012.
Sometimes there'...
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Proper sequence of actions for merging using SVN?
I'm totally new to CVCS (SVN specifically). I find that most resources focus very strongly on the command-line commands (irrelevant; we use Windows Explorer + TortoiseSVN) and about structure (e.g. ...
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Develop in trunk and then branch off, or in release branch and then merge back? [duplicate]
Say that we've decided on following a "release-based" branching strategy, so we'll have a branch for each release, and we can add maintenance updates as sub-branches from those.
Does it matter ...
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Daily builds with SVN for a small team
I have a general question regarding best practices. I have a small team working on a medium-scale software project, which involves integrating code from different environments, etc. The project is a ...
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Are “skip deltas” unique to svn?
The good folks who created the SVN version control system use a structure they refer to as "skip deltas" to store the revision history of files internally. A revision is stored as a delta against an ...
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Understanding branching strategy/workflow correctly [duplicate]
I'm using svn without branches (trunk-only) for a very long time at my workplace. I had discovered most or all of the issues related to projects which do not have any branching strategy. Unlikely this ...
