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Version control is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files. Use this tag to mark general questions about usage and applicability of version control, VCS comparison. For most commands and techniques specific to each particular VCS there are specific tags, which should be preferred.

Version control, also known as revision control, source control or software configuration management (SCM), is the management of changes to documents, programs, and other information stored as computer files. It is most commonly used in software development, where a team of people may change the same files.

For questions specific to a certain version control software use the appropriate tag. Here is an (incomplete) list of commonly used tags:

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CruiseControl.NET and Git

It looks like there is no built-in support for Git in CruiseControl.NET. Anyone have suggestions on Git plug-ins, tips, or other advice on getting CruiseControl.NET with work with Git?
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What do you use the svn tags directory for anyways?

Ok so we all know the standard SVN set-up of trunk\ branches\ tags\ And I realize that the recommendation is that tags should have "special" commits in it. I've never really used the tags directory however and I don't see why I ever would. My…
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Running JIRA on a VM

Anyone have any success or failure running Jira on a VM? I am setting up a new source control and defect tracking server. My server room is near full and my services group suggested a VM. I saw that a bunch of people are running SVN on VM…
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"bzr uncommit" equivalent in Mercurial?

Bazaar has a wonderful uncommit command, which simply undoes the last commit. Is there any equivalent in Mercurial? Edit: Bazaar's uncommit command does not modify files – it removes the last commit and associated data (useful, for example, when…
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pull specific commit/file from git

I have made two commits in my git repository and push them to my git server the two commits are In first commit file A is committed In second commit file B is committed now on the other development server I want to pull only the first commit or…
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How are version control histories stored and calculated?

Consider this simple python code, which demonstrates a very simple version control design for a dictonary: def build_current(history): current = {} for action, key, value in history: assert action in ('set', 'del') if action…
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Git log without cloning the repository?

git log give us a really good functionality to know about what happened in the project. When we are in our machine and we have the cloned project is just executing the command. But I've realized that sometimes I need to read the log from somewhere…
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How to setup github repository in my NetBeans IDE?

I am very new to Github. I just created one github account and it says as bellow: Step 1) Global setup: Set up git git config --global user.name "MyName" git config --global user.email MyName@gmail.com Next steps: mkdir Java cd Java git…
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Version control system for game development with UDK?

We're a team thinking of making a game using the Unreal Development Kit and we're looking around for version control solutions. I have always preferred decentralized VCSs like Git and Mercurial, and used it for all my personal projects. Though I…
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Wikis with VCS backends?

I've recently stumbled upon some wiki's which use version control systems for their backend, namely Gollum (git) Hatta (mercurial) This seems like a pretty neat idea to me and I wanted to play around with one such wiki. I was wondering if the…
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SmartSVN can not identify .a file?

I find a strange problem of SmartSVN: If I add some files into the repository, most of them will be identified by smartsvn except .a files, I don't know if this is a setting problem issue or other things ...... Dose anyone met this problem before ?…
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Why does 'git mergetool' (meld) show conflict markers?

Why does 'git mergetool' (meld) show me the ancestor view WITH conclict markers? This is totally wrong and I've never understood why it does this. How can I fix it? A 3 way merge should show [ Your Changes ] [ Common Base ] […
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LightSwitch project: Which files to check in, and which to ignore?

In a LightSwitch application, what files and folders should I ignore and not keep in source control? (I'm using Git, and I'm wondering what to put in the .gitignore file.)
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Exact `svn export` equivalent command for git?

There is no exact svn export equivalent command for git? Really? Beware: this is not a duplicate question. That is, I already know and have tested these commands: git clone --depth 1 <- Still downloads the .git folder. git checkout-init <- Doesn't…
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Should stack.yaml.lock be checked into source control?

Since stack v2, stack produces a stack.yaml.lock file. Should this file be committed to source control, like stack.yaml? Or should it be .gitignored? On the one hand it's generated content and isn't source, on the other hand it contains hashes of…
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