Questions tagged [version-control]
A programming discipline for tracking, storing and retrieving revisions of source code.
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How to version modules that depend on different framework versions
I work as a Website developer. We use a framework for building the backend of our sites.
This framework recently released a new major version with lots of breaking changes. We have some sites using ...
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With Kent Beck's "test && commit || revert" (TCR), do you skip the "red" of "red, green, refactor"?
If you haven't heard of Kent Beck's TCR, it can be summarized with this: any time your tests go green, you commit; anytime your tests go red, you git reset --hard.
This post is about how to practice ...
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What is the current definition of continuous integration?
It seems that there are at least two possible definitions of continuous integration:
Frequent merging of a codebase to a common codebase (e.g. daily merge to the main branch of a VCS server).
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Proper ways to manage evolving inter-communicated microservices APIs?
I'm working on a big C# application that is currently under development so we have some room for structural refactoring.
The application is divided into 10 microservices, which some of them ...
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How do you use version control systems while you are in a long design spike phase?
In some recent projects, I found myself having some longer spike phases in which I build many cheap prototypes and explore different design decisions, long before I would consider my code of ...
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Is there any way of applying a code formatter to a active codebase that doesn't lead to suffering?
Often one wants to apply a code-formatter, like Black, or JuliaFormatter to a existing code-base.
One where standards have tried to be followed but a few things might have slipped in.
Once you have ...
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Reasons behind conventions around what goes into source control?
I've come across some apparently-conflicting patterns of behaviour. I'd like to understand why they each exist. I'll call them "conventions" for the sake of simplicity, though I'm not sure ...
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Is checking dependencies into source control worth the cost?
For the last several years, I've been checking all dependencies of my team's nodejs project into source control. At first, we stored the archives of all dependencies using yarn v1's offline mirror, ...
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Strategies to organize multiple projects which may reference each other and managed by different teams in Git?
First actually I don't think Git is a specific involved tool here, it can be any other Source/Version Control tool (TFS, SVN, ...). The point here is how to deal with the scenario in which I have ...
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How much should we archive for reproducible builds?
A few alternative twists on the question title to contextualize further:
What to archive of the "sources" for a given software build?
Should I include all transitive packages in my ...
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Architecting project into multiple source control repositories
I'm doing some work with my team to refactor/rearchitect some parts of our existing codebase which consists of two separate Django apps hosted in one common project repository. We're starting work on ...
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Version control organization for large .NET solutions
I'm trying to come up with a better way to organize my C# projects on SVN. The .NET solution for my main GUI has about 28 class library projects. These libraries fall into two categories. Some of them ...
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How can I keep track of which existing lines of code/text have passed some new review?
Firstly, this is a really tough topic to do searches for because you get a wealth of information on “code review”, which is different from what I’m referring to here. That normally refers to ...
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Build & deploy individual apps from a monorepo
My Proposed Monorepo Architecture
This layout is what I've come up with from reading through tons of articles and being convinced that Nx suits many of our needs where I work. The layout works fine ...
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Should Visual Studio specific files be excluded from version control?
I work on a number of code projects, some open source and some not. Many of these projects are intended to be cross-platform, most often running on either Linux (my natural habitat) or Windows and ...
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How to setup our codebase for efficient code sharing and development?
Our situation
At first, our company had 1 product. Custom hardware with firmware we wrote ourselves.
Now more projects are starting to be added. Many can reuse most of the components of our first ...
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Confused on Git workflow and role of dev environment/branch
I work in web development and the team I work on is growing so I see the need to hammer out a more formal Git workflow. We have a process down that is working for now but it's starting to cause more ...
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Distribute commit files between different repositories
I am not sure if what I'm asking is even possible (or desirable, for that matter), but we were wondering what would be the best way to handle SQL changes to a Database schema, when this schema is ...
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Large regression test suite and version control [duplicate]
I'm developing a software tool with command line interface. Our team has corresponding regression test suite consisting of ~1000 test cases, which is definitely not a huge number. Each test case ...
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Best Git branching strategy plan CI/CD for kafka platform development
I'm working on a Kafka platform development project, the team is keeping all the code in master with no branches, next moving to QA, Stg, Prod. If in between these stages if they don't need any ...
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Disadvantages for having completely different codebases in different git branches
One senior member of my team setup a new git repository for our product we are working on, since we are migrating from SVN to git. Our product consists of different software components that are ...
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How can a developer overcome their fear of merge conflicts? [closed]
I'm a beginner at collaborative development, I started learning about merge conflicts.
And I have this question.
Is it possible for a developer to deliberately postpone merging because he doesn't want ...
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Reverting commits after merge
I am working on dev branch and I merged dev into master so all the commits not appear on master but I am not very confident about some thing. Should I do pull request and then merge or this way is ...
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"Support branches" and major tech update
Our software product promises to support major releases with bug fixes for X years after the release, meaning that in our git repository, we keep permanent "support branches" for every major ...
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First time teamwork (PHP): version control and continuous integration?
A colleague and I are going to be working together on a single project for the first time. This raises a few technical questions for me. Like how.
I think a version control system is a must now, if it ...
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Is there a way to use git with multiple users on a shared computer?
I'm currently a user of a large research compute cluster which has many other users. We all have access to a shared program that is being actively developed and used. Since we are all effectively ...
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Code review patterns for multiple teams working on a single product
We're scaling out development on a single product from a single team to multiple teams. What are the patterns to ensure coding style, patterns and technology is used consistently?
Is there one person ...
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Who is the potential audience of a commit message?
I've been taking a course on plain language writing, in order to make my commit messages more readable and understandable.
One of the main ideas in plain language writing is that your first identify ...
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What is the relationship between continuous integration and git hooks?
I'm trying to get into the habit of making sure that each master commit to a repository I work on does not break any existent tests. In my current flawed workflow, there are some intermediate commits ...
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Proactive git branch conflict detection?
I'm considering creating a new tool, but I wanted to find out if something like it already exists.
The Pain:
Working with many collaborators on a monorepo, conflicts are not possible to detect until ...
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Continuous Integration practices for forked repository
We have an on-premises BitBucket server with a git repo for an embedded device. We use a multi-branch pipeline in Jenkins to:
Build and run tests
Build the firmware (and a little supporting PC tool)
(...
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Projects version and database compatibility
We are trying to fix our's company versioning of several modules and I'm not sure how to consider Database compatibility when versioning.
The same Database is used for a lot of applications and we're ...
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Best practice for organizing build products of dependencies and project code in your repo source tree?
I've checked quite a few related questions on source tree organization, but couldn't find the answer for my exact need:
How should I organize my source tree?
What's the best structure for a ...
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Running multiple version of code
How should I set up my project when I want to run the present version of a class against previous versions? I'm interested in issues related to code organization, file naming, and source control.
I ...
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How to deploy pipeline rerun?
I have an application that's mostly one large data pipeline. That pipeline runs daily and stores processed data in the database (it takes the execution date as its argument). Occasionally the client ...
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How to structure commits when unit test requires refactoring
I'm trying to get a review for my lists of pros/cons about how to structure commits that came out of a discussion at my work.
Here's the scenario:
I have to add feature X to a legacy code base
The ...
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Explaining why a code's modifier should also be its committer [closed]
The context of this question is the early stage of introducing a VCS into an academic setting consisting of non-SW-engineers, largely unaware of modern best practices related to coding as a team. At ...
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How to Maintain Rarely Used Scripts
I come across the need to do a lot of one time scripts (related to API evaluations, data extraction, experiments etc.) that have the potential only to be used very rarely in the future. These could be ...
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Is cherry-picking commits into master (instead of merging) a good idea?
Background
At work we've been trying to find a new workflow. We currently follow git-flow pretty closely. We don't have release branches; we just merge develop directly into master once we feel like ...
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TFS Branching for Xamarin Common Projects
I have a solution for Xamamrin.iOS and Xamarin.Android application with structure as below,
Solution Root
Common Project
Xamarin.iOS Project
Xamarin.Android Project
I need to branch both iOS and ...
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How to review and merge a big feature
We are creating a new page on our website which will require overall ~5000 LOC.
Now the problems here are:
How to get so many lines reviewed?
When to merge these changes to master for release?
How ...
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Whose responsibility is it to fix merge conflicts?
Say that A is working on a branch based off master and B merges changes into the master branch, which introduces merge conflicts between A's branch and master.
Whose responsibility is it to fix merge ...
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Should we keep very similar files with slight feature differences under different names?
In my team, we use git branching to keep different features separate (of course). However, one co-worker insists on keeping these features in different files as well to avoid merge conflicts. For ...
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What causes the "git rainbow"?
Sometimes when working with other developers with git version control I run into a problem where the git graph suddenly spawns countless parallels lines like in this image.
Image from here.
I have ...
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What is the best GIT workflow with CI/CD with submodules in a master to a test environment and a stable branch to a production environment?
We have a several GIT repos in Azure DevOps with .NET Core web applications that are related to each other with the use of submodule (we used autocreation of NuGet Packages in a private NuGet store, ...
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Do seasoned developers still have to deal with merge conflicts?
I am still a software engineer in training, but I have heard the following adage multiple times:
Good coders don't have to deal with merge conflicts.
Whenever I work on a project with others, I'm ...
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API Request/Response Model for showing differences in JSON objects
I am writing an API to merge two different JSON Objects.
Both of these objects can have same as well different number of properties.
Object 1 :
{
"name": "Sam",
"lastName": "Hanks",
"...
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Is it bad to have many contributors in a code repository?
Is it a bad thing to have a large number of contributors in a code repository?
My current company has a really large repo. This repo has over 40 contributors.
And there's a debate about whether or ...
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GIT: Why use master (or any branch) as to reflect what's in production
We're having a debate here on our server development team, and I'm struggling. I've always used master as source of record for production, with the master branch (or some designated release branch) ...
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In GitFlow, why not merge from master to feature?
It seems to me that the sooner a developer merges with released code, the better. In the original GitFlow article this isn't done. The original picture is this:
When long lived feature branch on ...
