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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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Is there a feature to batch upload folders with files in git, svn, hg?

There are folders with files with names: "1", "2", "3"... and "2020070801", "2020070802", "2020070803" ... locally currently. Is there a feature to batch upload such folders with files in git, svn, hg not step by step and in batch so to get commits…
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Git and parallel branches

I am using git and I have a local develop branch, from which I created new branch called BranchA, where I will work on FeatA. I worked on this feature, and I needed some additional input, so I needed to postpone work until I receive information I…
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Mercurial - meaning of tokens?

Please see the attached image (courtesy HgInit's Mercurial tutorial). What does it mean by --- a +++ b @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
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How to completely change an hg repo's structure

I have an hg (Mercurial) repo located at, say: http://myhg:5000/projects/fizzbuzz This fizzbuz directory has the following basic structure: fizzbuzz/ src/ ... thousands of source files docs/ ... lots of docs tests/ …
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Synchronizing DVCS repositories across multiple machines

What's the best way to keep a DVCS repository synchronized across multiple machines? I'm a solo developer interested in being able to easily move between my work desktop, home desktop and a (Mac) laptop. At the moment I use Dropbox to keep files…
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How to perform something akin to svn tagging in Git?

My application needs to conform to a new specification. So I want to tag a version of my app as it stands. I want to be able to check out this version in the future. I committed all my latest changes. And I do: git tag -a stable-pre-new-spec When I…
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How does version control systems recieve files from Git?

I want to know how does a VCS (Github for example) updated the database based on commits upstream? and how does git push send files to the VCS? Thanks in advance!
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Cherry picking new features for stable branch

We have following requirement when it comes to bussiness process concerning introducing new features to a stable branch. We have a stable line which gets delivered to our clients. Also we have a development line where we develop new features.…
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What is the main advantage of GIT over SVN?

From my understand of Git Vs SVN, the main advantage of Git over SVN, apart from the distributed nature of Git, is that one can commit/push updates to the remote respository, without having to resolve conflicts at point of updateding the…
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Merging with an ancestor of the current commit

How does merging in a previously-rejected idea from the same branch, work in various revision control systems? Which offer support for this? Here is my educated guess - is this summary accurate? Git and centralised VCSs: Presumably, you reverted the…
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What does "git clone /path/to/repository" do?

I came across git clone /path/to/repository in my Git tutorial. What does this command do and when will you use it?
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