Comments on: Integrating Source Control Into Your Projects

By: Stephen Cox

Stephen Cox — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:14:23 +0000

Jesus.. sorry for the typos. Just reread my comment ‘above’. Was typing too fast.

By: Stephen Cox

Stephen Cox — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:28:53 +0000

Project that i won (meaning only I am working on) I do not use version control. I rely on TM backups. ;)

By: Andy Rockwell

Andy Rockwell — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:19:41 +0000

Smaller companies often don’t understand the full benefit of using version control or don’t understand version control at all.

From my contract development experience, the biggest offenders are companies who do most of their business in local markets with developers in house. These companies stand to benefit the most from proper version control and simply don’t realize it.

What I do personally is offer to install a nice Ubuntu LAMP stack + version control for them locally, setup the project in version control and train other developers to use it as the project progresses. Ubuntu makes it really fast and easy so I offer to do it for free.

Do this and at the end of the day you’ll end up with very happy customers who trust you and keep coming back with contract after contract when they can.

By: TQ White II

TQ White II — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:13:12 +0000

Contrary to your view that personal repositories don’t work in a team, I always keep a local repository. At minimum it is a grand ‘undo’ buffer. At best, it allows me to try things that I may not want involved in the real code base. Git is great for that.

By: Giedrius

Giedrius — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 10:42:32 +0000

I agree with the comment, that even if you are working alone, you should use source control system. It’s very good way to keep track your work.
Thanks for nice article!

By: Les

Les — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:46:15 +0000

@thomas

That is what I was meaning, something that would work seamlessly with the server. I’ll take a look at webSVN, thanks.

By: Joel Clermont

Joel Clermont — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:42:20 +0000

I insist on using source control even if I’m the only developer on a project. It makes it trivial to jump between machines for development. It makes it possible to track your changes (and even retrace your steps for a detailed invoice). Plus, if you’re really gutsy, you can give a project manager or client access to view the svn logs on a website and let them monitor progress in real time.

By: Tomaž Muraus

Tomaž Muraus — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:48:36 +0000

I still find it hard to believe, that there are companies where more then one person is working on the code at the same time and they are not using any kind of version control system.

@Les: What you mean with “integration”?

If you mean accessing / viewing contents of your repository via your web browser, you could use webSVN.

Or take it to the next level and use a project management tool which supports integration with different kind of version control systems (redmine, trac, etc.).

By: Les

Les — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:58:04 +0000

What would you suggest are the best tools to integrate version control along side your server – apache of course – so there is seamless interaction?

I hear of webDAV but never really got into it. Also, how does this affect unit tests?