Git makes working with branches extremely easy. Especially compared to many of the version control systems that came before it. This has resulted in a standard workflow involving feature branches. The idea is to branch from master when you begin developing a new feature. You do all of your development on that branch. When the… Read More »
There has been a lot of talk lately about projects moving to git. So far I the write-ups from people converting to git have all been glowing endorsements of the new one, true way. There’s almost a religious fervor related to the subject. Since my experience has not been quite that good, I thought it… Read More »
I don’t often write about something quite this geeky, but it is just too cool not to share. First Several months ago, I read about an interesting module for Linux called SSHFS. This module allows you to mount a file system over SSH. This gives a way to access files on another server that you… Read More »
Practical Subversion, second edition Daniel Berlin and Garrett Rooney Apress, 2006 Two years ago, I reviewed the first edition of Practical Subversion. The second edition has substantially updated the reference information about the Subversion commands. The previous edition had been based on a pre-1.0 version of the program and had somewhat incomplete coverage of the… Read More »
In Conversion to Subversion: Tags, I explained how I cleaned up the tags portion of the CVS dump file in order to generate a subversion repository in the format I wanted. Lars Mentrup emailed to say that I had not been clear enough on a few points. After re-reading what I wrote, I have to… Read More »
In the first article of this series, Conversion to Subversion, Part I, I described the problem I found in trying to convert a project from my CVS repository to Subversion. In my last article, Conversion to Subversion: The Project’s Trunk, I described the solution that I used to convert a basic project with no tags… Read More »
In Conversion to Subversion, Part I, I described the problems I found when I began converting my CVS repository to Subversion. In this article, I describe the work and surprises that came from the first project migration. My first idea was to build the repository from the dump file and then fix the result using… Read More »
For about a year now, I’ve been playing with Subversion on small projects. In order to protect my main repository in CVS from my experiments, I just created new projects under Subversion and worked with them there. All of my real projects continued under CVS control. This way if my experiments with Subversion were a… Read More »
If you haven’t tried Subversion yet, you really owe it to yourself to give it a try. I’ve used CVS for over a decade now and I’ve been trying Subversion for a little less than a year. I haven’t yet moved most of my home projects to Subversion, but it’s looking more probable every day.… Read More »
I was doing a little research on the Java JUnit test framework and ran across the article The Third State of your Binary JUnit Tests. The author points out that in many test sets there are ignored tests as well as the passing and failing tests. As the author says, you may want to ignore… Read More »