Questions tagged [version-control]
A programming discipline for tracking, storing and retrieving revisions of source code.
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Best practice - Single or Multiple source code repository
As mentioned here:
The main aim of CI is to prevent integration problems, referred to as "integration hell"
Our project is a 3-tier web application, with frontend(Angular 6), backend(Springboot) &...
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Code base architecture for one app that has multiple versions with small changes [duplicate]
I'm building a hybrid mobile app that has slightly different versions but share 99.9% of the code. There is a paid and free version, which differ in one function only. Also there is a slight ...
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What benefits do you get by storing your whole Information System code on a single VCS repository? [duplicate]
Working as a consultant, I'm currently helping a client with its digital transformation plan. The company exists for more than 30 years. And they've seen many and many changes as each CIO tried to set ...
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How do I merge branches between Develop - Test and Production without moving across 'test' specific code?
I have a web application that has some specific differences between production and test environments.
I.e. test email config, test payment config, the word Test written on the home page (useful to be ...
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How to use Semantic Versioning on Existing Multi Component Codebase?
I am working on a multi contributor project, having ~2500 Commits. It has multiple components, i.e. Frontend, Backend and Data Processor/DB Ingestion.
Now that we are expecting more contributors, a ...
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Are CCQ (Continuous Code Quality) tools like SonarQube expected to deny version control changes? [closed]
I am getting into SonarQube and everything looks quite and simple so far, but I am not sure what is the final purpose of CCQ overall.
Yes it gives you a lot of tips about whats going on inside your ...
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Where to keep Ansible Inventory file
I keep my Ansible based deployment module in the same repository/directory as my application code.
I use Mercurial for my VCS.
The inventories file is ephemeral as the IP's of the cloud hosts keep on ...
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How do I work on a new project and simultaneously add generic code to a base library with version control?
I work on several projects and sometimes they share a common base. How do you work with version control?
Here's an example:
I've got a boilerplate Wordpress plugin that I reuse. On each new ...
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What are branching strategy pros and cons for 2 main types
So at a high level, we have multiple projects/solutions in company and we need to keep them in 1 source control.
Since the number of projects is around 50, we are not creating individual repositories ...
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Source control Sql Server multiple shards with minimal differences
One of the database systems I work with (I'll call it database A) was essentially sharded into 3 schema-identical copies. This was easy to source control, and when a change was made to any of the ...
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Source Control Release Management: Simultaneous Releases with Different Configurations
This is a best practices question for release management of an app. But this scenario is a bit different than what I've been able to find myself.
Essentially my company maintains a fork of its own ...
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Bringing a large, complex legacy project under git control
I'm a newbie with respect to git, but not to version control in general — I've been using CVS and Subversion for years. I've read both the Progit and O'Reilly (Version Control with Git) books, ...
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What are the risks of having a release branch?
Currently we manage our source code in a Microsoft Team Foundation Server project. We have the following branches:
Development
Feature 1
Feature 2
Etc.
Test
The process is that development is ...
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SVN / Git How to administer branches
I'm the technical lead for a small company (6 developers). We currently use SVN and we're slowly porting over to Git, after everyone gets their training.
Currently our clients are the ones who "pull ...
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Keeping secrets out of source control - are we just moving the problem?
I inherited some projects in which secrets were in source control in App.config and similar files. Fortunately it's not a public repository so the risk isn't as serious as it could have been. I'm ...
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Git workflow regarding remote feature branches
I've been using git for a while, but still do not understand how to deal with feature branches.
When you develop in a feature branch in a strictly local manner everything makes sense. You commit, ...
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Versioning hardware vendor SDK with git
We have n C projects which reference 4 different versions of a device SDK - 12.3, 13.1, 15.0, and 15.2. There is no public upstream repo for the SDK - it is released as a zip file. We need to patch ...
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How to maintain a low dependency version of a project?
I am not as technically skilled as most people asking here. I use git to backup my own work to an online repository, but I rarely use it in collaboration, and don't know much more than the basic ...
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Which should I prefer: A subrepository/submodule, or a CMake ExternalProject?
I'm developing or maintaining a free software project Foo which uses CMake for a build system, as well as source control (e.g. Mercurial or Git), with the repository being available online.
Now, this ...
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How to version control common libraries? [duplicate]
For example, I have multiple projects which shares some common libraries:
ProjectA
CommonLib1
CommonLib2
ProjectB
CommonLib1
CommonLib2
At the moment, they are all in one big repository:
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Save settings per developer in Git
Persistence is an essential requirement for preferences. Developer's preferences are saved in .idea/ folder. It is recommended to add .idea/ to .gitignore to avoid merge conflicts. But then settings ...
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How to implement tracking of changes in text documents à la MS-Word/Apple Pages
I want to implement tracking of changes in plain-text documents, in a way similar to how it works in MS Word or Apple Pages. What I am unsure of is the data model and how to store it.
Goal
The ...
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Is it good practice to switch back to an old branch to develop a new feature or to create a new branch?
I have an old branch (old-branch) which I last used approximately four months ago that I used to develop a feature for a specific project. It was never merged back into master because the feature ...
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Reusing binary assets using Git
We have multiple projects that are using common binary assets (e.g. images, sounds, 3D models etc.) stored in a folder on a server. Right now, each project adds these assets to their git repository. ...
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One person controls only one folder, in a repository
How can I give complete control of one folder to one person, while the rest is in the control of another person. Control means they have the power to approve pull requests and commit to master and ...
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Storing config in source control, but a different version for each developer
We have a developer toolchain, governed by a config file. Each developer can have their own version of the config file. What is a good way to store separate versions of that config for each developer ...
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Process for archiving binaries from different repos using Git?
Working in the embedded systems space, our products usually require multiple binaries for each of the microcontrollers within a single product. Using SVN previously, we would bundle validation and ...
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Manage web service with different version
My vendor can log in to a master management system (System A) which manage multiple subscriptions of a SaaS (System B). Each System B is hosted separately on an isolated server. System A and system B ...
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Git one repo dependent on another
I have a git repository that is built with one library and during compiling the library is switched for another to get 2 versions of compiled code for 2 different libraries. (different versions of the ...
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2 way synchronization with multiple client version
I have a project consisting of both a local and a remote system.
The database between the local and remote system needs to perform 2 way syncing. I know this can be achieved by using a 2-way syncing ...
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Looking for a good git workflow for new projects with a small team
I work in a small team of developers (there are 3 of us).
in the research that I have done, the workflow that most teams seem to follow seems to be as follows a branch is created for a feature and ...
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Multiple git users
On GitHub if I want to contribute to another user's repo I clone it, make changes and submit a PR, at which point the owner can choose to merge or not. I am trying to figure out how to create a ...
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How could a test engineer aid test-driven-development in continuous integration?
In an environment where you can't merge code that fails tests you obviously can't merge new, failing tests.
But how to deal with a newly found bug exploit, meaning you wrote a new test exposing an ...
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Code quality on backports branch with limitted lifespan
JuliaLang just hit version 1.0 the other week
I and many other package maintainers have thus updated out packages to work with julia 0.7 (the transitional release) and 1.0.
In doing so, we've often ...
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How can mainline/trunkd development work when we have multiple versions in prod at the same time?
I am not a developer myself so please bear with me. We are providing solutions for various customers and it is common to have a situation like this:
Our customer has a version 1.1, and wants us to ...
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Should I commit every change before switching branches or is stashing the best option?
I am new to git and am currently trying to learn as much as I can about it.
I think the concept of it is fantastic and extremely valuable to any developer's workflow.
I am a data scientist who ...
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What is considered best practice around using git / VCS's when doing a complete code rewrite?
I am a data scientist who programs in R, but am relatively new to using version control (yes, I know!) and I am still learning lots about it.
FYI: I use BitBucket and Sourcetree
I understand the ...
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universally understood file-diff format
I've always assumed that the output from diff (typically "unified", whether or not it's colorized) is universally understood among most if not all text-based language programmers. Whether it's used ...
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Monorepo vs multi repo for large project with multiple partial deliveries
I am looking into options for smoothing out our deliver and release pipeline, and would appreciate some advice on the best way to structure the source code.
This is a pretty large project, which ...
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Do we really need a master branch or can we release straight from a release branch?
Currently we have the following branches:
Develop
Release 1
Release 2
etc..
Master
When we want to cut off new features for a release, we create a new release branch (say release 3). We then only ...
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With Source Control, when should one get the latest versions in the workflow? [duplicate]
In teams, when should one get the latest versions of the files in source control in an optimal workflow?
For example, should it be right before you commit? Or every morning? Should it be automated?
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What does it mean that DVCSs allow us to set up several types of workflows that aren’t possible in centralized systems, such as hierarchical models?
Can someone please explain the last sentence of this paragraph about Distributed Version Control Systems:
"Furthermore, many of these systems deal pretty well with having several remote repositories ...
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Best practices for database backward compatibility
I am working on an app which has multiple versions deployed in the market. Different versions have modified databases and databases are to be synced between local storage and server storage by signed ...
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My team is working on the second version of software, but we are still in alpha. How should we version it?
So this is a little complicated. We are trying to follow semantic versioning (x.y.z) but we are having trouble agreeing with each other on what numbers we should start at.
We inherited a product, let'...
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Release branches and trunk versioning
We are using version in following format:
Major.Minor.Bugfix.Test
Development for upcoming release is going on in the trunk. When enough features are done we are creating a new release branch: 1.1,...
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Source control with multiple customer-specific repositories
Here is a diagram of how our source control setup is configured.
The issue with this setup is how we handle various customers. I would really like to use a different approach than copying the entire ...
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Proving Two Zip file are identical
I migrated some files from one Version Control System to another. I have to prove that content are identical (between source and destination, denote 1 , 2). There are a few zips files (lets call them ...
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How did scientists “source control” hardware switches?
I'm putting together a talk of the history of best practices in software development and we're trying to put together a bit of a timeline of how good practice has evolved.
This question talks about ...
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Should we assign version numbers for internal releases?
In our environment:
Internal releases are those which went through testing process. Builds either pass or fail.
External releases are those which are delivered to users.
For external releases, ...
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How to convert multiple Git repositories for related code into proper branches/tags
Background
I've recently become the technical lead/senior developer for a small R&D/data science team. I've got a decent amount of non-lead experience in bigger development teams, but I've not ...
