Version-control software allows you to keep several versions of a file. Each time the file is changed, a new version is created. Older versions can be retrieved. Related files can be grouped together. Multiple people can edit the same files and their changes can be merged together.
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Add a parent directory to a git repositoy
I have created a git repository for the C implementation of a program.
I am about to add a Matlab implementation and I would like to have a single repository with two subdirectories: one for the C ...
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What is it that automatically checks configuration changes (such as those in /etc) into Git?
I remember reading on the Ubuntu forums some time ago about a program to automatically check configuration changes into version control for you. It was (of course) not Ubuntu-specific. I'm pretty ...
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How to convert TortoiseSVN to TortoiseGit
I am currently using TortoiseSVN for version control. I want to convert to Git so I though TortoiseGit would be the easiest move.
How do I convert my repository to a Git one while preserving all ...
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Is there an appropriate filesystem to store many duplicate files?
I have a bunch of different versions of source codes to manage and have to store them locally.
So, here comes the problem: How may I store them without using too much disk space?
I am not using ...
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Which version control should I use for my configuration files?
I want to store some of my configuration files (~/.emacs.d/, .Xdefaults, etc. linux $HOME stuff) in version control so I can easily sync them with my notebook/workplace and see my past changes and ...
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.gitignoring pdf file only when a tex source is present
I'd like to set up a global .gitignore file in my home suitable for working with TeX files. So typical TeX junk files such as *.log, *.aux, *.synctex.gz would go in it.
The next step, however, is ...
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Program to check out various code repositories
I frequently find myself needing to download source code or binaries from various repositories all over from different version control mechanisms (SVN repos, hg and git, etc).
Does there exist a ...
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Connect Dreamweaver with bitbucket
How can I connect bitbucket reposiory with Dreamweaver SVN?
I am getting below error while I am trying to test my connection.
Note: bitbucket can be accessed via SVN.
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Version tracking on local mac?
Is there a program for doing version tracking on your local computer, without using SVN/subversion or something on a remote server and without setting up a server on my computer?
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Is there any program, which can store all versions of files, as they appear on disk?
I'm looking for windows program, which can run in background and archive all versions of all files, as they appear in specified directory. Does somebody know such a tool?
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SED: how to pull out version string
I would like to use sed to pull out the version number from the command:
svnversion --version
Which gives output like:
svnversion, version 1.6.2 (r37639)
compiled May 10 2009, 12:41:21
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How to handle files that don't need version control in mercurial
I am new to mercurial, and for the most part do LaTeX reports and statistical calculations in R using .csv and/or .sqlite files. Re LaTeX, all I really care is the .tex file. Re R, I don't need ...
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Single-user, multiple-computer versioning system
I have two computers (work and home) and wish to set up a version control system for source code and TeX documents. There are no collaborators (i.e., single-user/editor). Most of the source files are ...
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Adobe version control software?
Does the Adobe CS suite of products come with a version control system that integrates natively with products such as Illustrator / Photoshop allowing action and/or layer level specific version ...
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Git on Windows - tutorial?
Does anyone know of a decent tutorial on how to set up Git on Windows?
Which client do you prefer to use? Any that integrates with Visual Studio?
How to use Git on windows? I am used to svn and ...
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Version control with no server installation
I have ssh access to many servers where I have no root privileges. Do you know of any version control utility that can work with remote ssh repositories whichout installing anything on the remote ...
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Running Subversion on Windows sans Apache?
We're stuck with a Windows IIS 6 server at the moment. We'd really like to get a decent OS version control system set up for it.
Can Subversion run without Apache? Most documentation that I've come ...
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Where should I store my mercurial repo on linux?
I'd like to set up a mercurial repo on a linux machine. Originally, I was going to set it up in my home directory but a lot of different users are going to be accessing it so it doesn't seem like the ...
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Subversion configuration related question
I've got subversion installed on my Ubuntu server. I usually do my development work under an account separate from root. However, in order to check in code, I need to be root or use the 'su' command ...
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Installing Mercurial on Mac OS X 10.6
I'm trying to install Mercurial on Mac OSX 10.6, but I'm having problems:
I have Mac OS X 10.6, so I downloaded Mercurial 1.4.3 for OS X 10.6 from http://mercurial.berkwood.com/
I install the ...
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Does anyone use hg/git/svn for version control of PSDs/binary files?
I'm not dealing with 1-50 KB JPEGs, but 150-250+ MB psd files for various websites, and I'd like to keep track of the versions with a VCS.
If anyone has real world experience with such a scenario, ...
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How to summarise recent changes in a OneNote notebook?
I know that OneNote keeps a history for each page in a notebook and that I can access this history for each individual page, but is there any way to get a change log for the entire notebook?
For ...
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View incremental diffs of my revisions to files using Dropbox
Sometimes I use a simple editor like Notepad++ to edit my webpages on Dropbox.
Notepad++, not being an über-editor or IDE, does not track file changes for me.
But Dropbox does!!
Has anybody ...
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Integrated version control / backup system for Windows?
In the past I've used svn for storing all previous versions of my source files. Now I'd like to use something similar for my whole Documents folder. I'm not choosing svn this time because:
It ...
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How do i create a remote repo to push?
I notice i can have multiple remote repos. This is great. I'd like to have one on the local network. The network and that server is usually good but sometimes it goes down we'll have a backup server ...
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How to display SVN revision on front page of multi-file LaTeX document?
I am writing a large LaTeX document, and I would like to display
the current SVN revision number on the title page. The problem is
that the LaTeX document is split into several files root.tex,
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Public/private git clone url?
Ok, I know how to use git for the most part, but I've just recently been playing with some github stuff and noticed the public/private url. May I ask what that is about?
I know may not be advanced ...
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How to have emacs count an increment of words?
Implementing the Martini method, I'd like to count the number of words added to a file since last checkpoint (say, each day).
I guess I could count the words of an older backed-up version, count the ...
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move cvs repository from one server to another
I need to move CVS repository from one server to another. Currently my repository is on external hard disk. So I believe I do not need to copy code from one server to another. Both the servers are ...
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Setup Version Control on Dreamweaver
I have a win computer on the Network called WIN2K8FS1
I have TortoiseSVN on a win computer and when I go to checkout a repository with Tortoise it asks me for the URL of the repository. I put in:
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Export files to remote server using TortoiseSVN
I'm using TortoiseSVN to keep revisions of my code. When I commit changes, I take note of what files have changed and upload them to my server using FTP.
Here's my workflow:
Edit files on local ...
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Git doesn't observe new exceptions in .gitignore
[NOTE: This is not the usual "Git still tracks files I just added to .gitignore!" problem. This is the opposite of that.]
I have a website's full directory structure in a Git repository. The CMS I ...
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Versioning file server
Looking for a virtual filesystem server (like ftp or sshd or NFS, samba) with the following features:
open-source
cross platform server (Linux/Windows/OSX)
linear file versioning (don't need to have ...
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Batch detect Adobe Reader version on multiple computers
I want to scan for and build a list of versions of Adobe Reader installed on computers at one site in a domain.
I'm using a demo of Shavlik Netchk (commercial software) which works well, but I'm ...
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Merge master functionality into shared branches in Git
Suppose that I have several shared branches on my Git repository, for example: newfeature, experiment and gtkgui, and I share those branches in the origin repository. My team and I make some changes ...
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Does versions control system work on server or per site
I tried hard so that I can stay away from version control but in almost good job specifications, I find version control as requirement. So I thought I had to start from somewhere. I always tried to ...
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Is there a 64 bit SCC provider for ClearCase?
Just got Slick Edit 16, 64 bit installed, and I use ClearCase for version control. Normally, I have used the SCC provider to do my work, but I'm on a 64 bit OS now, and would really like the power of ...
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How to keep my OSX settings under version-control?
Coming from Linux, I've gotten in the habit of keeping my config files under a git repository.
Since I got a macbook however, I've made a lot of tweaks through defaults write and preferences panels, ...
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Git keeps forgetting the current directory
I've got a git repository, call it myscripts/. Within myscripts/ are subdirectories perl/, python/, and ruby/. For some reason, when I edit code in one of the subdirectories, Git forgets that the ...
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How to keep a clone of GIT updated?
I have created a GIT clone on my backup NAS:
git clone --bare //NAS/GIT/TexRepo //backupnas/backup/GIT/TexRepo.git
Now, continuing to work on the regular repository, what is the best way, practice ...
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how do I source control my color profiles? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to keep my OSX settings under version-control ?
I switch between a bunch of Mac and Linux machines at work/home.
On my Personal Mac, I have setup TextMate, iTerm, ...
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Git SVN rebase to tags only
I'm extending an open source project with additional functionality. So I'll be basing my code on the released version of the source code. The open source project uses SVN and I uses Git.
How would I ...
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check file revision through http only
If an svn repository is exposed through, say, http://svn to users, and there's a file called script.sh, is there a way one can get the latest revision number of script.sh just through http access?
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Adding “manually versioned” project to git repository
Back before I had heard of the wonders of version control, I kept projects in folders like "project x 1.0", "project x 1.1", "project x 1.2", etc. There's tons of redundancy in this approach, so I'd ...
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Version control support in Microsoft Word 2007
When I am about to edit a Microsoft Word document, I can do undo and redo. If I close that document, undo and redo will not be available anymore. If and how does Microsoft Word support SVN or any type ...
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Git vs SVN: Website storage efficinecy [closed]
I know that SVN (Subversion) stores files' deltas in order to efficiently store data. Git however, is a little more complex. What I'm wondering is that if I were to store plain HTML, image and js ...
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How do you backup your localhost?
I have method to backup my work on localhost based on week basis. I use multipe dos command and save in on a bat file. I use command such as copy and xcopy and save my localhost to another place.
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Saving Git remotes inside the Git repository itself?
I have a few projects under version control using Git.
Since it is a distributed version control system, it is very easy to have it hosted at multiple places (GitHub, Bitbucket, Google Code, etc.) ...
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Tortoise CVS icons not visible in Win 7 x64
I'm running Tortoise CVS 1.10.10 (with CVS NT 2.5.03) on Win 7 x64, and my folder overlay icons won't appear.
I don't remember when this happened, however I've a colleague running the same setup ...
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Free versioning server
I know services like GitHub and BitBucket, but I need even a little but private space to do versioning (doesn't really matters if it's git, hg or svn).
Years ago I subscribed to a service that gave me ...
