Questions tagged [version-control]
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Software Versioning Software
I am looking for a small software versioning (changelog) and bug submission system with a web-frontend.
The features I only need is a change-log where users can see what they can expect and a tiny bug-submission system. I don't need the many…

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How does a web server/the http protocol handle version control and compression?
When a client browser requests a file from the web server, I know that some kind of check is performed, because the files needed to serve the web page may already be cached by the web browser. So, if a file exists in the cache, no files are sent.…

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Where to safely store source code?
Our company already uses version control, and is already doing daily's backups.
However, it is my boss's concern to keep the source code somewhere "safe enough" in case of multi-robbery or some natural disaster, ecc..
I tried searching google for…

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Any way to enable Amazon S3 Versioning for existing objects?
All the information that I have read on the AWS S3 Object Versioning specifically mentions this:
Objects stored in your bucket before you set the versioning state have a version ID of null. When you enable versioning, existing objects in your…

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Subversion - svnadmin dump remote url
I have Subversion repository that contains multiple projects, and now I'm trying to separate each project into it's own repository.
system:
# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga)
# rpm -q…

alexus
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Multi-user bzr server
I'm currently investigating whether it is possible to serve bzr in a setup similar to what gitolite does for git. This means a single unix account, with different users managed via their ssh public keys. I'd be happy to integrate this with gitolite,…

MvG
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Linux system configuration management: versioning and deployment
I'm looking for the best way (for my purposes and situation) to version system configuration files and manage deployment (ownership and mode) between just two machines (live and backup, both should be regarded as 'production'). I would like to be…

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Should I keep my deployment settings in a separate repository?
I'm learning Salt Stack to deploy my Python application to various stages of production on AWS. Right now I have all my source code and salt states in one big repository.
Are there any practical or security considerations in keeping minion state…

Petrus Theron
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Migrate multiple svn repositories into single git repository
We want to migrate from svn to git permanently to be able to use git's better features in terms of branching and collaboration.
Our current svn repository looks like this
svnrepo/
frontend/
trunk
branches/
ng/
...
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How to log in as a user in p4
I have an issue where users are trying to log in to their perforce account using p4 (not p4v), but it seems to start at a default account without permissions. When they try to logout with p4 logout, they get "Access for user "foo" has not been…

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How do I enable ZIP/TAR/BZ2 Download Buttons in my Mercurial HGWEB?
I recently got Mercurial running on my server, shared via Apache. When I browse to the repos via the web, I see a list of my repositories with Atom/RSS links, but no download buttons.
My question is, how do enable the purple "ZIP", "TAR", "BZ2"…

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Version Control and Backup, which combination?
I'm a sole developer and I have 3 computers. Plus a friend of mine has an account, but never uses it. My current setup is GIT + my own ad hoc backup job that clones the repository, zips it, gnupg it, and send it to a remote ftp. This has worked…

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How can i check software version with Ansible?
I have three linux servers and i created the ansible inventory file:
[web]
192.168.0.155
192.168.0.165
192.168.0.175
And i have playbook.yml:
---
- hosts: web
tasks:
- name: Check drinks versions
shell: "python3.4 {{ item.sw_path }} -v"
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How can we force a puppet manifest and module syntax check prior to version control check-in?
I am working on deploying version control for our puppet modules and manifests.
I want to enforce a workflow that requires a puppet module and manifest code check prior to a check-in of changes. This would be useful since it would prevent the…

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Version control of chef nodes and roles
Is it good practice to version control the nodes and roles when using chef? If so, what is a good way to do it?
It looks likes one should be able to take a tree of JSON files created using chef_server_backup.rb and simply check it into VC. Are…

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