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Merging Python2.7 code to its ported Python3.9 version
I am working on a Django based project that is version controlled with SVN. My main objective is porting it from Python2.7 to Python3.9. Whilst I port the project, my team brought some updates, now I ...
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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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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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Managing the same files in four separate SVN repositories
We have four repositories in SVN, in which most of the files are same in all four of them. The reason why we are using four different repositories is, we have four different software products which ...
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Git structure for multi platform projects
Currently I use SVN for my project and the structure looks like this:
trunk/SharedLibrary/
trunk/platform/wordpress/ <- platform base directory
trunk/platform/wordpress/SharedLibrary <- ...
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How to manage same source code for different country in SVN?
as per my current requirement. I would like to maintain common source code for different country releases.
Below are the cases which are required to be covered in the new process of code manage.
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Is it a good idea to lock svn
I have to define the new way of working for a development team which goes from a one man unit, to a distributed team with programmers al over the world. The team will work with svn. This is a non-...
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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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Converting a very large remote subversion repository to a slimmed down Git repository
I have the pleasure of taking over 14 year old subversion repository that consists of two key elements:
111,000 revisions, about 10% of which are substantial;
The repository dump is about 73 GB, due ...
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Same dev env setup across multiple machines - aka fixing "but it worked on my machine"
Community,
as our software and development team grows, we ran into multiple problems:
Multiple Config files with different paths for each machine
"Do I need this tool? And what version, I don't have ...
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How can I maintain code quality without SCM?
I am working in a governmental institution. The technology being used here and the methods for developing software are quite old fashioned.
They have tons of storage space but no appropriate space ...
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How to properly develop in different SVN branches with Eclipse IDE?
I recently got into a slight argument with the other developer on my team about the correct way to develop with SVN and Eclipse. My way of developing in multiple branches is by creating new workspaces ...
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How to provide Java libraries internally?
In my small team we write applications that run as a Jenkins job and using the SOAP API of our Bug Tracker, our ALM software. They are accessed with Java however I think developers using other ...
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Branching a subdirectory while keeping commits from other directories
I currently have a single pre-existing Git repo for a client/server solution that contains three subdirectories for 3 sub-projects:
/client - An Angular2 SPA application (client-side TypeScript)
/...
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Avoid wrong variable on branch commit
Our frontend web software contains, inside a file called url.js a variable used as URL root for REST webservices.
var url = "https://devappserver:8080";
During development on developer PC, for ...
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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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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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Automatic Resolution in SVN for CSV File
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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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Version control problem
I heavily use Excel and CSV at my workplace.
File 0 Excel File
The initial file is an Excel file. Let's call this File 0. This may or may not change with time depending upon the requirement of the ...
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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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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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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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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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Restructuring SVN repo for migrating to git [duplicate]
We currently have a SVN repo structured like so
/trunk/library/libA
/libB
/libC
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/trunk/tools/toolA
/toolB
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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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