Questions tagged [version-control]
Software used to manage changes to documents, computer programs, large web sites, and other collections of information.
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What is a good newbie-friendly graphical Git client for Windows?
Personally I'd just install Cygwin and proceed with the usual *nix shell tools, but I need to make a software recommendation to some clients that need something a bit more newbie friendly.
The ...
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Merge GUI tools for those new to merging
The other day I had to do a rather icky merge. I tried it via the command line, but was so confused that I had to use a GUI tool.
I used meld, but it seems that there are others, like kdiff3. But ...
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Simple versioning for plain-text documents (Linux)
I would like to identify a simple, FOSS version control system for plain text documents.
For more complex (academic) writing, I happily use LibreOffice. But increasingly I find it convenient to write ...
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A version control for Word
I work in a small office inside a University and I'm in charge of the physical documents for the students like guides, questionnaire and so on.
We have 10-15 students a year that work with us to get ...
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What is a good newbie friendly graphical Git client for OS X?
Personally I'd just pop open a terminal and brew-up the usual *nix shell tools, but I need to make a software recommendation to some clients that need something a bit more newbie friendly.
The ...
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Pre-merge/commit code review tool
In my previous workplace we have used Gerrit as a code review tool for git to share and review each other's modifications on a web-based interface and give feedback and a chance to improve the code ...
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What is an open-source alternative to the Atlassian suite of products (Confluence, JIRA, etc.)?
I've periodically searched for an open-source alternative to the awesome suite of Atlassian products and always come up nearly empty. This time, the only option that seemed to exist is Tiki Wiki CMS ...
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Portable, real-time collaborative, multimarkdown editor, with live preview and version control integration
I'm looking for a tool, collection of tools and/or plugins, or even works-in-progress in this general direction, for this quite demanding (and possibly conflicting) set of requirements:
user ...
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New software team lead, looking to upgrade tools
I recently promoted to the Technical Project Manager role for the small software company I work for. We produce one main product that is supported by numerous smaller products. At any given time we ...
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Version control tool interoperable with other version control tools
We are starting to reevaluate version control software to be used at our company. We selected ClearCase about 15 years ago and Subversion six years ago, so we have some environments still with ...
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Online note taking with Markdown and revisions (saved in server filesystem)?
I have a limited access to a server running PHP, which is allowed to read/create files in my user area on the server. Here I would like to set up a small "self-hosted", "collaborative" online note ...
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Dotfile Management Tool, for controlling which dotfiles at work vs at home
I have several different environments I work in, and several different sets of dot-files I use in each.
Use-Case
Consider the example (simplified scenario).
I have 3 environments:
work-desktop
work-...
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Tool for calculating metrics from source control
Does any simple tool exist, that can calculate various metrics from version control? Most metrics calculators work only on source code. I'm using SVN. Some nice graphics output like graphs or ...
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Passive version control for Windows
I have moved to a new position where non-programmers sometimes produce snips of code and I have been authorized to better structure their code foundation.
However, before I introduce them to a ...
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Document Version Control System
I'm new to all this versioning business so please help me understand the different versioning software out there that will suit my need. I've come to a sad realisation that I need to start versioning ...
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Ticket tracking project management workflow software
I'm looking for a piece of software that fulfills the following requirements. I've exhausted my search capabilities.
Version control integration (SVN preferred)
Tickets support custom fields, ...
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SQL Server database version control
I'm looking for open source SQL Server database version control addon/tools to link with Git.
I tried gitSQL and red-gate sql source control (not an open source). With gitSQL I see a problem that ...
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Versioning system for translations
I am looking for a versioning/tracking system (commercial or free it doesn't matter) to handle the translations of a large number of documents that are constantly under development.
The text can ...
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Android Git client with revert support
I’m looking for a for Git client on Android that can do git revert <sha> (in addition to pull and push).
There are many well-featured Git clients in Play store, but I haven’t found one with ...
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Photography libraries software
I have bunches of photos taken during life and I have some backups of the as well (but version and contents of collections may differ unfortunately),
Is there some Software system to to manage such ...
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Client-server storage with persistent, renameable files, renaming history
Users should be allowed to...
upload files
rename files after upload
view the renaming history of a file.
User should NOT be allowed to...
delete any file
change the contents of any file
manipulate ...
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Subversion client for Windows (similar to Versions)
I am a big fan of Versions (Subversion client for Mac OS). I'm looking for a Subversion client that can:
work on Windows 7
display the number of new commits that I haven't retrieved yet on several ...
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Github-like collaboration platform [duplicate]
The place I do volunteer work for would like to switch from svn to git, and we really love the collaboration features of github. Unfortunately the $300/year cost for a private organisation account is ...
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A real time version control for programmers?
Websites like Google Docs will save each character you input and allow you to go back in time character by character or word by word instead of being forced to manually commit locally and then push it ...
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Mercurial GUI with support for evolve
I'm looking for a GUI frontend to the Mercurial version control system. Right now I'm using TortoiseHg, which I dearly love, but it doesn't have any integrated GUI support for the evolve extension (e....
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I am looking for Version Control for office documents
I would like to see if there are any offline options for version control.
The problem:
The basic set up is, that documents are stored on a central server, and everyone works on their own version of ...
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free text editor with some kind of automatic versioning system
I'm trying some creative writing, and I rewrite a lot of part of the text, and I want to be able to see previous versions of the same part of the text, and maybe merge them. Doing this by copy pasting ...
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Software recommendation to view git-conflict side by side?
I am doing some git merging and there is a conflict.
Usually the conflicts are small (less than 10 lines) but this has lots of conflicts that are more than 10 lines each.
What software would you ...
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What wiki supports feature branches?
In our development workflow, like most Git-based shops, we have a production branch, a master/dev branch, feature branches where developers work on features, and release branches where things go ...
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SVN 1.8 Compatible Client with GUI for Ubuntu 13.10
I'm looking for an SVN GUI for Ubuntu, It needs to be compatible with SVN 1.8 as some of the office run Windows with the latest Tortoise SVN.
I've tried RabbitVCS, RapidSVN and even TortoiseSVN ...
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Version control system and front end interface for 40+ students
I am looking for a version control system that will allow me to create any number of repositories and allow up to 30+ people to be able to access it as cheaply as possible. We can host this ourselves ...
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GUI-based version control tool for MySQL
I've been trying to find a change control scheme for the database that makes merges of changes from multiple branches manageable, but every option I find seems overcomplicated. Most people seem to ...
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Version control system for closed source project
I'm looking for somekind of version control system where I can create a repository for my project, like SVN for example, but with the abillity to define which portion of the source some user will be ...
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File undo history external to any text editor (similar to local history in an IDE)
I am after a tool that can provide me with incremental file history (for text-based source files). I use version control but would like more history.
This history only needs to be temporary and span ...
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Mac backup / sync software
I'm looking for a mac program that would allow me to work following way:
Keep all my files on Windows/Samba Share (on Synology NAS device that can also act as rsync server).
When I need to work on ...
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interfacing markup/git with Word for document collaboration
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partner A: underling, coder, Linux and FLOSS user, lives in text editor and web browser, accustomed to collaborating using git repos (local and online) and online-repo-supported markup.
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Binary file versioning on windows - linux systems
In our project, we currently use git version control for our source code. However, we have a need to track our binary releases (virtual machines, configured setups) as well. They are usually some ...
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Where can I find user friendly Release Management tools?
I am having a hard time when trying to find a free or commercial tool that offers a dashboard where IT managers, DBAs and developers can easily see which releases versions are currently installed in ...
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Subversion client for Windows
I'm looking for a recommended Subversion client.
The requirements are:
User-friendly to be used.
More than 4 people to use it.
If any possible that the application is free to use.
In our case, we do ...
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Version control system locally
Is there any software that does the version controlling of a module locally.
Without actually using the internet can we just have a setup of all the versions of software internally.
Please recommend ...
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What is an appropriate versioning system for a Master's student doing data processing with MATLAB?
I am doing a Master's thesis and trying to decide the best way to organize my MATLAB data processing files. I want to ask for advice on the best versioning system to use. What would be the appropriate ...
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Portable, free, cross-platform, GUI-based prose-friendly plain-text diff and merge tool?
I have a Macbook at home and a GNU/linux desktop workstation at work. But, I sometimes also have to work on my university's library machines (running Windows 7) without admin rights.
Is there a (...
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Password manager with revision control
I would like to use a password manager that creates revisions for every (saved) change.
I don’t want to build something myself (e.g., using text files), so it should be a dedicated application (but ...
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Video editor that works from plain-text files
I have used iMovie and Final Cut Pro for video projects. I find them easy to work with and intuitive to some degree. After I finish the project, I may want to change one word that appears multiple ...
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Easy and simple GUI source version control on Windows
I'm a programmer and want begin a work with source version control systems.
Of course I know about Git and its popularity. I tried to work with it (its clients) several times, but I did't like it. ...
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Recommendations for version control software for NON-networked PCs that have to share/exchange work
Because of security restrictions, I have an environment with 2 Windows PCs which are basically air-gapped - ie not connected to any network.
Both PCs will develop some code, which is a shared ...
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Tool for convert bitbucket and github tracked issues into PDFs
Can anyone recommend a simple tool or commonly-used script that can be used to go through all of the issues tracked in a bitbucket repo and convert each into a PDF for local storage?
I have access to ...
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Is there a very simple version control tool that only uses a diff-based change log for a text file?
Parsing the change log and reconstructing an older version automatically is not a requirement. The only objective is to make everything I ever wrote and saved and potentially deleted searchable and ...
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Best Choices for Application Lifecycle Management
I'm evaluating various suites for application lifecycle management. The components I need are:
Requirements Management
Issue tracking (or work tracking; "fix this bug" and "add this feature" should ...
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Version control system with fast synchronization for multimedia
Suppose you have one external HDD which you connect once a week to your laptop and backup all your important data (e.g. photos/videos) to this external HDD. Now suppose that you have already some ...
