Are you still using SVN but have some users clamoring to try out git? Kris.me.uk details all the commands and workflow to make it work. While I’ve known that git had some svn integration available, I prefered to switch cold-turkey to git. You can read the reasons I switched to git. This article looks at […]
Clone … What could possibly go wrong? If you’re a coder, you’ve already heard about distributed version control systems (DVCS) and git in particular. I was content, almost complacent, in my usage of subversion to manage my source code, both for personal projects and at work. Subversion was intended as a “compelling” upgrade for CVS,
I'm attending tekx, and while I'm taking notes in all the sessions with Evernote, I'll try to clean up and summarize my notes here as well. One of the session's I attended yesterday was Eli White's session on Code and Release management. It focused more on the techniques, policies, and practices to think about about
The feature I’ve been looking forward to the most, merge tracking, made it into the latest Subversion release. I’m not sure why, but branching/merging has been a conceptually scary thing for me for a long time. I’d always be afraid that somehow I’d mess up the merge and lose updates or somehow mangle my code
The more I use subversion, the more I find ways to make it do more heavy lifting for me. I’m not talking about the kind of subversion that gets you a one way ticket to gitmo, but the open source version control system. I use it to manage my websites here, to keep them updated
I’ve been using Subversion heavily lately to keep my live and development sites synchronized and its been a huge productivity booster. I had to move some code over to a lite site for work this evening and it was such a pain, because I had to go through and figure out the files I needed
Luckily the install is very painless and mostly automated (easier than the last windows install I did). Despite all the critiques of linux installs (and yes, it did cross my mind that a new Mac would be nice), I find myself hunting for drivers and driver CDs (especially for motherboard subsystems) than I have to