Source Control Suggestions
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honey the codewitch wrote:
it sometimes tries to push my entire Projects folder
Do you have a .gitignore? I've never used it before because I was missing stashing functionality. I used to like SourceTree A LOT better (VS 2015-2017), but with 2019 it's just slightly better I think.
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I seem to, but it's intermittent problem so i think it's a bug. Overall this 2017 installation has been shaky at points.
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So, after my last post, I still need some source control. With MS saying not to use VSTS, and I DON'T WANT GIT, what are my options?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Kevin Marois wrote:
and I DON'T WANT GIT
I used to hate GIT, but that was when I had to use the command line, which is incomprehensible. I now use SmartGit as the front end, and I'm quite pleased with the ease of creating branches, stashing stuff away to be applied later, merging branches, etc. I've never had a problem with it, and SmartGit's graph of branches is probably one of the more readable ones I've seen, not that I ever even look at those things when working solo on a project.
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So, after my last post, I still need some source control. With MS saying not to use VSTS, and I DON'T WANT GIT, what are my options?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I use SVN and TortoiseSVN as the UI at work - they seem to be fine for what I need(creating branches, patches, merging etc).
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I never said source control was backup. I said doing source control on a server next to my Dev PC doesn't make sense in case the house burns down
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Kevin Marois wrote:
I never said source control was backup. I said I need source control as a backup in case the house burns down
That's what I hear. If you want to secure your work against the case where your house burns down, seek a backup solution. If you want to be able to maintain different versions of your codebase, seek a source control system. There's no reason you can't use both. Technically, you can setup a source control system as a backup solution. But it would be very inefficient. I've tried it once but found it to be painfully slow. Plus it clogs your drives with version control info that you might not even need - at least not on your local drives!
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So, after my last post, I still need some source control. With MS saying not to use VSTS, and I DON'T WANT GIT, what are my options?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
AHH, you gonna make me that person!!1! Sorry ahead of time if just want some alternative. Are the fears you have with GIT from personal experience of what you have read and been told? My history: 4 years in software, some SVN used. Start using GIT on new project. 2 years go by with very little issue of a team of 3 people. Get a new hire and in the first week things start breaking. Release went out which replaced a fix and compile time issues. Cause: new hire was using command line to do all their GIT commits/pulls/push/sync. Me just let them do their thing. Another week, I cannot help them, because my command line experience of GIT is minimal. This person claimed years of experience with GIT and blaming the team for doing it wrong, that their way was right. Also did not help that they decided to rewrite much of the existing code in their style without checking if this was acceptable or what the requirements of those existing components were. to end this rant: GIT is a tool. First understand your CURRENT workflow. How many people in the team? Then look at a tool to help improve YOUR workflow. I still look at unit tests with some detain, but when the that work helps show red days before release, it helps. Simplest work flow: setup VSTS (azure devops) with Master as Pull Request only. Make branch per feature. Pull request viewer in devops, pull requests in general, consolidates multiple commits for easy pear review. Mark delete branch on successful pull. Issues with conflicts means in VS to sync YOUR master copy. Merge master into the branch. Review conflicts. Commit, push. The pull-request is updated and conflict removed, to allow for another review. Im now in a team of 5 people, who have 20+ projects in Azure DevOps, some with multiple repos in them.
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I have a solution with some projects in the same base folder, and other projects that are shared in different locations. When I right-click the solution and choose "Add To Source Control", a Git message pops up:
Source Control - Git
The current solution has projects that are located outside the solution folder. These projects will not be source controlled in the Git repository. To add all the projects to a single Git repository please consolidate all projects under a single folder.
This doesn't even make sense. I've heard too many horror stories about Git. This is one of them. See also [Git Catastrophes and Tips to Avoid Them | @RisingStack](https://blog.risingstack.com/git-catastrophes-and-tips-to-avoid-them/)
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
That's because it's a visual studio error, not a git error. Git doesn't know anything about "solutions" - that's a VS thing.
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So, after my last post, I still need some source control. With MS saying not to use VSTS, and I DON'T WANT GIT, what are my options?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I have a $5/m DO droplet that hosts my private Git AND SVN repos. It still has about 18GB free space on it.
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I never said source control was backup. I said doing source control on a server next to my Dev PC doesn't make sense in case the house burns down
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Host the repo locally. Store the backups of the repo off-site. I believe that's the crux of Griff's point.
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So, after my last post, I still need some source control. With MS saying not to use VSTS, and I DON'T WANT GIT, what are my options?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Roll your own.
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So, after my last post, I still need some source control. With MS saying not to use VSTS, and I DON'T WANT GIT, what are my options?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
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Hosted where?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
My personal ISP (DreamHost) allows SVN installations. Check your ISP.
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So, after my last post, I still need some source control. With MS saying not to use VSTS, and I DON'T WANT GIT, what are my options?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
I have used Perforce and found it very reliable and easy to work with. Integrates into Visual Studio. I would still use Azure Dev Ops (VSTS) as a default as it does everything I need it to do. Just need to remember to set the project up in the browser and then add files to it from Visual Studio.
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Hosted where?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.
Try Assembla.com, I have had good luck with them and integrating into Visual Studio with Ankhsvn
