How to push local GIT branch to a remote repository
GIT is a Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) that was “born” for Linux kernel development. It’s not the easiest to use for novices, but it fast and allows to create advanced code sharing...
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Codebase Integration Scenarios
Last week I’ve been observing details of integrating source code coming from three different development teams (located in different countries). Each team owns some subset of modules and has R/W access...
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“svn status” for Perforce
Status command is very important part of any VCS (Version Control System) local interface. It allows you to check your workspace state and ensure correct commit will be created. Perforce is a...
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Git: “pull –rebase” by default
GIT is a distributed version control system that allows to share codebase between developers. Born in Linux kernel world proved to be very useful for any programming task. “Distributed” means you can...
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Software Releases Using GIT
Releasing Software is not just packing latest version to tarball and send to SFTP server. It requires preparation and some planning to be done properly. I’ll describe release procedure I applied on one...
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“git cherry-pick” for Perforce
Cherry-picking is a technique of porting only selected commits from one branch to another. It’s directly supported in GIT by special command: git cherry-pick <SHA-COMMIT-ID> Also SVN has simple...
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GIT is a fast version control system that handles branching very efficiently and allow for most operations to be done offline (is a distributed VCS). Of course sometimes you have to exchange code with...
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Fixing invalid comment / branch name in GIT
Recently I was asked to help with fixing branch that had: invalid name (wrong artifact number) invalid comment inside (also based on wrong artifact number) it was a mistake and programmer wanted to...
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Bazaar to GIT migration
Today I moved using site-uptime.net development from Bazaar repository to GIT using elegant bzr2git script. The why: In-place branches (I used to use them heavily) Faster (no Python libs loading during...
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Time Tracking in Bug Trackers
Modern bug tracking software are not only the bug trackers. There are more features. Typical additional components that are included are: Wiki systems: to share knowledge Estimations Time tracking I’d...
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