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DVCS stands for Distributed Version Control System. Use this tag for questions about DVCSes in general. If your question is about git, or another DVCS that has its own tag already, then use that tag instead of this one.

Distributed revision control system (DRCS), distributed version control or decentralized version control system (DVCS) keeps track of software revisions and allows many developers to work on a given project without necessarily being connected to a common network.

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Bzr no working tree actual sources storage

A question I could not answer from the bazaar documentation. If I have a shared repository with branches having no working trees. So the branches folders only have a .bzr/ folder, not a single source code file or whatsoever I might be version…
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How do I configure tortoisehg to show copied files in the log (i.e. use the hg "-C" option)?

I want to easily tell which files where renamed when looking at the changelog using the tortoisehg UI. The out-of-the-box config only shows that a file was added/removed (i.e. the standard hg log message without the -C option).
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TortoiseHg - seems to be very slow on Win7

I have recently setup a Mercurial clone with TortoiseHg on our network - it seems to take forever to add files, do commits etc.. It usually hangs for 3-5 minutes at a time & for seem reason it really doesn't like any kind of right-clicking in…
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Composite Baseline Concept applied to DVCS Mercurial/Git

I come from the IBM Rational ClearCase world (UCM and all that..) and as I remember the concept on Composite Baselines i wonder if there is something out there that has the same purpose for DVCS. I understand that Mercurial/Git are "Get All the…
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How can I put a WebDAV filesystem in my DVCS when I can't write to the root?

I have WebDAV access to a filesystem where I can't write to the root of the filesystem, but can write to 2 folders beneath it. I'd like to: track my changes in a single DVCS repo (git/hg preferred) work directly on the WebDAV connection rather than…
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Hg sub repos dependancies

I’m currently migrating from CVSNT to Mercurial but am running into problems with what I used to be able to achieve with CVS modules. I have two projects say A and B which both depend on common code in a directory C. If I make a change to code in…
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CVS alternative

as the title says, I'm looking for an alternative to CVS. Basically, I'm unable to setup an a constantly on CVS server, and so far, the current setup my team uses is a shared directory. With that in mind, I'm looking for something that has the…
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Applying specific commit(s) from one git repository on another

We are developing automation code that runs against multiple different versions of our company's products. Per product version we're aiming to keep a dedicated code branch in Git. Branches may diverge and contain different history, however for some…
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Preserving read-only flags in Mercurial (or equivalent)

We'd like to prevent changes to SQL migration scripts that are in source control and have already been applied. Is there a way to mark files (specifically, SQL migration scripts) as read-only and persist this in source control? We could resort to…
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Internal Repository Setup

I have jumped on the GIT bandwagon lately. I am confused about which DVCS hosting to use. I am in a notion that i can setup my own thing on a dedicated/vps server. So, my question is that, how to setup my own internal remote repository management…
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Fossil: recognise changes while repo closed

I know, I should only change files in a project, when the repository is opened. But I now tried to see what happens when I change a file when the repo is closed, because I will often do that, because I'm going to forget to open repos. It's…
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Fossil: "not a valid repository" - deleted repository

I'm trying fossil for the first time, and messed it up within minutes. I created a repository, then apparently ran commands in the wrong folders etc., eventually deleted the test repository, in order to restart. (Somewhere I had read that fossil was…
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Mercurial : how to recognize partially overlapped histories (fine grain)?

How can Mercurial (or any other DVCS) recognize partially overlapped histories? E.g. fine grain / coarse grain. Is there any way in Mercurial to usefully merge two repositories where the lines of history are similar, but not identical? E.g. where…
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mercurial update hook gives me permission denied error

I am using SSH to push to the central mercurial repository on the remote server. I put in a hook so the remote repo will update: [hooks] changegroup = hg update >&2 when I try to push to the remote repo, the push succeeds, but I get this…
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How to remove case sensitive folder from Mercurial repo?

In BitBucket Mercurial repo, I have two folders: converter and Converter. But when I clone the repo, I have only Converter folder that has content of both (MacOS). I want to remove Converter folder. How can I do it?
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