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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How can I get the subversion server's version number?
How do you get the version number your subversion repository server is using?
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Version control, file history and versioning for Microsoft Windows 7?
What Software allows me to go into the folder properties and enable file versioning / a file history, so that any overwrite can be undone?
Windows Vista and beyond do provide simple versioning ...
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Setting up ssh in git
I am trying to setup git ssh client on my windows PC. I was logged in to the PC as a domain user and I installed git and set up the ssh client through the domain user account which I was logged in. My ...
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How do I install git 1.8.3 on mac OSX?
I want to use the new git submodule deinit command added with 1.8.3.
Can someone give me step-by-step instructions on how to install and use the development version of git on mac OSX 10.7.5? The ...
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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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git difftool doesn't launch Beyond Compare from Powershell or command prompt
I'm trying to use Beyond Compare 3 as my diff tool with git. I configured git with the following commands: (source: Using Beyond Compare With Version Control Systems)
git config --global diff.tool ...
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TFS Shelveset equivalent in IBM CMSynergy
This is related to shelveset concept available as part of TFS.
Is there an equivalent technique available in IBM CMSYnergy?
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How can I synchronise web projects at home and work?
I am currently developing 10 websites for my job. I use codeIgniter PHP framework for each one.
I develop both at home (localhost) and work (localhost) and upload changes to the server.
My current ...
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Monit vs Source Control: permission problems
I'm trying to be good. That's my big mistake.
I'm being good by having process monitoring: I have monit watching some key processes, and restarting them if they fail.
I'm being good by not running ...
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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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Using Mercurial in Emacs
It seems that there are a lot of different ways to work with Mercurial from within Emacs. (In case it matters, I'm using Emacs 24.1.1 and Mercurial 2.5.2 on Ubuntu 12.10.)
I have found the following ...
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Can you sync Notepad++ and GIT?
I'm still fairly new to Git. Although I have technically used it for almost a year, most of it was with someone else standing there telling what to type. I used Titanium before to upload and download ...
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Is there a way to make TextMate remember its state when switching branches?
I'm looking for a plugin or bundle which enables TextMate to bind it's state to the current branch. By state I mean open tabs and open folders in the project drawer.
Here is my scenario:
working on ...
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Workflow for using version control with automated backup/sync
I am currently working on several different projects. I use Mercurial for version control (through BitBucket) and SpiderOak for automated backup. I work on two machines, a desktop at home and a ...
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Git repository on external disk?
I am setting up git server on linux Debian and I want for all of my repositories to be saved on external disk (usb disk drive). How can I acomplished that?
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Software to check for updates for all software installed in PC
Is there any software that could check for update for the versions for the software installed in the local machine?
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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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How to version control for a solo author creating non-programming documents?
I'm a writer, not a programmer. I'm just now for the first time learning about version control and how it works, and I am wondering how version control could streamline my workflow.
For years, I've ...
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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 to check if bzr “Tree is up to date” ? (to only build when necessary)
I'm setting up a script to download, build and install a big project (that uses bazaar) and want to trigger the build process only if the "bzr update" does NOT return "Tree is up to date at revision ...
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How can I automatically compare and merge a large number of text files?
Due to a series of technical snafus with Dropbox and Simplenote syncing, my main writing folder, which contains text files mostly in Markdown format, is all messed up.
I have about 500 unique files, ...
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Automatic versioning upon file change (modify/create/delete)
I am looking for an implementation (on Linux) of a mechanism which would automatically and transparently version any changes in a directory (recursively). This is intended to be an addition (possibly ...
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cvs: viewing the changes that I've done to a file/directory in the working copy?
Looking for a coomand to compare a file in the working copy, to the version that it was at when I checked it out.
This is my workflow:
I check out a whole version of our repository, and into ...
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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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How do you use a VCS (preferably git) to synchronize local directories?
I'd like to have a simple, script-like backup solution to synchronize 2 local directories which provides a "fail-safe"-mechanism allowing to undo 1 commited unwanted modification of a file that got ...
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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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Preserve files in a folder using cloud service GDrive using a type of version control? Is this possible? [closed]
I had to recently drop Crashplan for my cloud backups because uploading from Perth, Australia was too slow, and opted to go with Google Drive, which is uploading about 10 times faster.
Unfortunately ...
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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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How can I reliably synch local source files with a remote?
I'm developing locally on a mac running MAMP and BBEdit. I'm currently using Transmit to synch files by (S)FTP. I like the software and it has a "synch" feature to compare local files to remote either ...
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For tracking, visual diff & merging Word Documents, between TortoiseSVN, TortoiseGit & TortoiseHg which would be best? Or any others? [closed]
For tracking, visual diff & merging Word Documents, between TortoiseSVN, TortoiseGit & TortoiseHg which would be best? Or any others?
I've been reading interesting examples of people using ...
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using git for media libraries
Rationale:
I want to manage libraries of media files (music, images) using git, there is git-annex but it requires haskel platform - but they do not play together well (also it's quite to big ...
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concurrent word document collaboration
My colleagues and I are working on a large specification, in Microsoft Word
For the first few weeks, we all worked on separate pieces, and collated these together to form a single specification.
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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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Is there a word processor similar to MS Word which saves files as readable txt files? [closed]
I'm writing a paper together with my supervisor and would like to have a more sophisticated version control than *_291112_NEW_NEW_revised1.doc files. My supervisor is a non-computer person will never ...
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Is there any git “for humans”?
A few non-technical friends have expressed interest in many of the cool abilities of git (the version control and rollbacks, not the offsite duplication), but definitely don't want to deal with git-* ...
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Tracking history in excel
there is any possibility to track changes in Excel XP? With time, content and name of editor? Excel is running under just one windows account so system of revisions cant handle name of editors.
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How do I check the version of a Modern UI (Metro) Application? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find the version of a Windows 8 store/RT app I have installed?
As any Windows software, Modern UI apps have a release version, but I couldn't find it by looking ...
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How do you compare multiple folders with same files to find all different versions of the same file?
I've got 700+ folders with the same set of 200+ classic asp files (basically text files) in each folder. Over the years various people have made minor changes inside these asp files. I need an utility ...
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Automatically track all changes to a folder on Windows 7
Is there any software that can keep track of all changes that are made to the files in a specific folder? I'd like to keep track of the complete revision history of a specific folder (so that if I ...
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Simple file manager with version control
As the title suggests, I am looking for a simple file manager script that has some form of version control system built into it.
My needs are:
It needs to be web based (written in PHP using MySQL ...
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Is there any method of backing up Google Drive files in some sort of versioning system?
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My company is utilizing Google Drive for our shared files. Each user has their own Drive account. In addition, we have a corporate Drive account which holds documents which are shared to ...
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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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Organizing SVN Branches with TortoiseSVN
How do I organize branches in the SVN system? I'm using TortoiseSVN since I use Windows.
Currently I have this kind of file/directory structure. I'm somewhat getting used to managing numbered ...
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Can't get sync with SVN to work to put a directory under version control
I've created a directory on our SVN server and added a local directory with my project to it. It got uploaded and seems to be OK.
However, I didn't get those cute green (or any others) icons on the ...
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Why does SOS update a file to a previous revision?
This question is about the SOS version control system:
I have a file that always updates back to revision 1. For instance, to check out the latest revision I have to specifically ask for that ...
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How do I remove outgoing changesets in Mercurial (hg)
when I run hg out I have 3 outgoing changesets. I want to trash them and revert to how things are in the central repository. How?
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Cygwin - Repo with Separate Git/Working Dir Doesn't Work
Since I've switched to OS X and Vim, I've found it easiest to manage all of my 'dotfiles' (all of my configuration files and miscellaneous scripts) with Git. Having already set up my dotfiles in a ...
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Is git really that fast? [closed]
I remember Linus said it can process 4gb of data in about a fraction of a second in his laptop.
I don't remember exactly the quote, it is in this video.
Is it really that fast?
I mean, if Linus is ...
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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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Self-hosted, cross-platform repository for large files
I'm looking for something well suited for syncing folders full of large media (eg photos, music) across several machines, ideally with revisions.
I'm using SparkleShare for text and other small ...
