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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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How to set a Mercurial VCS build trigger for TeamCity that ignores label operations

I am trying to setup a build trigger for TeamCity using Mercurial as the VCS. Right now the trigger looks like: +:/** This trigger get fired when changesets are committed. However, I have TeamCity setup to tag each build in the VCS. The tagging…
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Merge two branches to create new branch

We have a few branches... master is our dev branch. feature-newfeature is a new feature. feature-tempfeature is a new feature that our product team have asked for until new feature is created. feature-newfeature was started a while ago and hasn't…
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How do I make my colleagues not despise SVN?

Many of my colleagues use SVN in groups of 1-5 people partly working on the specific project. Half of them are inexperienced students. In fact non of us are real software developers with year-long experience. Most of them use Eclipse and subclipse…
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What Source Control Has MATLAB Integration?

I am using MATLAB R2008a and I want to know what source control has integration with it. I've heard Visual Source Safe is not so good. Does Subversion have integration with it?
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Proper strategy to version control database

I am reading this blog and I have a question regarding the 5 posts that is written. From what I understand you create on big baseline script that includes all SQL DDL statments. After this is done you track each change in separate scripts. However I…
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Why git svn cannot clone a bare repo?

This issue is not the same as this or this. git svn clone -s --bare https://ctags.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ctags Unknown option: bare What is wrong? Can I use git svn to clone a bare repo? I have read man git-svn, and cannot find a method to…
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Is version control with Word/Office, but using a proprietary document repository (i.e. NOT Sharepoint), catered for with some sort of provider model?

I cant find any resources for hooking into the version control features offered by Word 2010. I know that it hooks in seamlessly to Sharepoint in terms of providing features to access the Sharepoint document repository . But take sharepoint out…
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Can i use git version control application without github?

Possible Duplicate: Is there a commercial grade Git server product Is there a Github clone that I can run on my own server? Can i use Git without GitHub's service? What i mean is, i am only the person working on the project and don't want to push…
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How to create a visual diff view like Stack Overflow does?

Stack Overflow's diff view is very good. I want to do this using javascript, but I don't know how to start, who can give some suggestion? such as:
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Should unit test classes be kept under version control with the rest of the code?

If I create a test suite for a development project, should those classes be kept under version control with the rest of the project code?
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Delete everything and upload new version

We are using git for version control and right now we are getting a lot of warnings when trying to upload the most recent version. I am new to git and don't have patience for the restrictions, is there any way to delete everything and upload the…
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Get git diff for any merged branch

For each defect in code I create separate branch. When defect is fixed I merge this branch in master, so I have history like illustrated below (we see two branches with fixes): defect1 fix defect2 fix a---b---c---d …
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A Subversion server for windows (SVN) for Tortoise Client

My question is like this one: Subversion Server to use on Windows The only problem is that it's old and I can see Subversion server on windows requires Apache and something like. I'm looking for: Windows 7 64x (not Windows Server) SVN Server with…
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SVN hook pre-revprop-change not working

I know that this has been asked many times before, but I believe my situation is different. I am trying to add a pre-revprop-change hook to our SVN repository to enable changes to be made to log messages. Before I added the pre-revprop-change file I…
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Create a git tree from working tree without touching the index?

I'm creating a tool that will allow people to store "solutions" to tests. Since I don't want to reinvent version control, I decided to use git's tree/blob/object stuff -- my idea is to create a git tree object out of the current working…
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