Recommendations for source control
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Git or Mercurial (Hg). Very small footprint and extremely easy to install and get started with. They encourage committing early and often so everything is tracked. They are both extremely easy to use though I think Hg's commands are a bit easier to remember for some reason -- though as you'll see they share many commands. 1. Download and install Git or Mercurial. 2. download a .gitignore or .hgignore file (for your language like C#) so binaries etc are (ignored) not committed. 3. c:\MyProject\>git init <ENTER> 3. c:\MyProject\>hg init <ENTER> 4. c:\MyProject\>git add . <ENTER> 4. c:\MyProject\>hg add . <ENTER> 5. c:\MyProject\>git commit -a -m "initial commit of project" 5. c:\MyProject\>hg commit -m "initial commit of project" You are set up and ready to go. now all your changes will be tracked. you can do hg diff or git diff and you'll see diffs You can do hg status or git status and you'll see files that have been changed. it's so easy. once you use it you will never want to do anything without it because everything is tracked and you can easily move to a previous revision and throw the current branch away.
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raddevus wrote:
it's so easy
I hate command line. I do prefer keyboard over mouse but I'm getting too old, I guess, to have to learn another "language." Thanks for the feedback though.
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raddevus wrote:
it's so easy
I hate command line. I do prefer keyboard over mouse but I'm getting too old, I guess, to have to learn another "language." Thanks for the feedback though.
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RyanDev wrote:
I hate command line.
Oh, well, when you install Hg it will also install TortoiseHg Workbench which is a UI. Also, if you decided to go with the git bash installation then you can type c:/>gitk<ENTER> and a Tortoise-like UI will appear and you can do the work from there. Good luck
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'm using VisualSVN on a server box at my office. Free save for the static ip, os and box.
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'd add a vote for Atlassian SourceTree - how you get your repos in one place I dont know unless you go github public - I use local git repos and occasionally when working on one project pull from a colleagues company private repo - source control is one thing where I like to 'see' what Im doing, as opposed to command-line, so SourceTree works well for me
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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GITsource control with TortoiseGit – Windows Shell Interface to Git[^] UI (no command line nonsense!) if you are a lone developer. If you need to work in a group tryGITwith Gitblit[^] as a local server. -
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GITsource control with TortoiseGit – Windows Shell Interface to Git[^] UI (no command line nonsense!) if you are a lone developer. If you need to work in a group tryGITwith Gitblit[^] as a local server.I like the look of Gitblit :) thanks I'll stick with SourceTree though instead of TortoiseGit, it means its the same on my Mac as it is on windows
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'd recommend Mercurial, and since you don't like CLI, more specifically TortoiseHG[^]. It's simple to use, filebased, distributed and more consistent than GIT[^]. Joel Spolsky made a tutorial that you can find here[^], it's for the CLI version, but I'd still recommend reading it.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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Bitbucket has a free option that might suit your needs: Bitbucket Pricing[^] Edit: Missed the important bit - this means I'm recommending GIT to you. :)
BitBucket also hosts Mercurial, last I saw.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. - Liber AL vel Legis 1:40, Aleister Crowley
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'd recommend GIT but with something simpler than source tree if you are after simplicity. What IDE/Language you using? Visual Studios GIT tools are not bad.
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
The best is to use git and the github online service. It is better than svn which we have dropped because git has more branching power and fits better in our tool chains. And last but not least: you stay away from Microsoft, which has the tradition to hold its customers as prisoners.
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...err, I mean TFS. ...I mean, Team Services. Sorry. I mean: Visual Studio Team Services I love Microsoft's naming. Really I do. It's free, it works.
cheers Chris Maunder
What do you guys use for your code repository?
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GITsource control with TortoiseGit – Windows Shell Interface to Git[^] UI (no command line nonsense!) if you are a lone developer. If you need to work in a group tryGITwith Gitblit[^] as a local server.:thumbsup:
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Seconded, this is what I use at home, shared folder on NAS, VisualSvn plug in. Simple, free and up and running in under an hour.
Regards, Rob Philpott.
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I'd recommend Mercurial, and since you don't like CLI, more specifically TortoiseHG[^]. It's simple to use, filebased, distributed and more consistent than GIT[^]. Joel Spolsky made a tutorial that you can find here[^], it's for the CLI version, but I'd still recommend reading it.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'd suggest that they lock you out of the building.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What would you recommend for simple and free source control? I have some side projects I am working on and the code is on my desktop. I also want to work on the projects with my laptop. It doesn't necessarily need to be online, I wouldn't think, but wanted to hear what y'all are using to access the same code from multiple systems. If it matters, some of the projects are .Net and some are Unity. I am not interested in setting up my own server.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
I'd recommend Github which also has the advantage that it works with every other tool and development platform out there from Linux to Windows.
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I'd recommend Github which also has the advantage that it works with every other tool and development platform out there from Linux to Windows.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare Home | LinkedIn | Google+ | Twitter
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...err, I mean TFS. ...I mean, Team Services. Sorry. I mean: Visual Studio Team Services I love Microsoft's naming. Really I do. It's free, it works.
cheers Chris Maunder
I've used Git, Mercurial, SourceSafe and TFS, even (from the dark ages) DECset on VMS and an SCM on CDC Kronos systems (darn, can't remember the name, and yeah, SCMs have been around on mainframes since the 1960s). TFS gave me the least amount of trouble. I develop both C# and .NET alongside embedded "bare iron" ARM GCC using Eclipse. TFS worked fine for both. Working with embedded involves building boards as well as writing code. I used TFS to version schematics, PCB layouts and reference manuals, even field service work instructions, along with code. That's where the database method is handy; it stores binary BLOBs as wll as code deltas. What I like best is the lack of "file droppings" in source code directories. TFS puts everything in a SQL database. This is developing in a commercial enterprise environment where project management is critical. TFS has a very nice work item structure to track design, bugs, testing, even deployment, and it integrates well with both VS and Eclipse, along with MS Project. The type of programing is not quite the usual mix. What I need is a common pool of drivers and RTOS tasks that I pick and choose for different circuit boards, sort of an a la carte program design methodology. Code is added to individual files with conditional compiles for different variations, due to IC pinouts, but basically similar targets. Directory level commit gets in the way because individual files are shared across several target builds, not the entire directory. Sure, other SCMs can do file level check in/out, but TFS does it best. These days I have to use Github, management directives from on high, but I do miss the ease of use with TFS.