It is only recently that the tools have existed to make source-control easy for database developers. Although entire build-scripts for databases could be stored in Subversion, tools like Source Control for Oracle (SoCO) now allow for a more effective source-control at object-level. … Read more
Subversion provides a good way of source-controlling a database, but many operations are best done from within your database-development environmant. Fortunately, several products provide this integration … Read more
In the ninth installment of his popular series on using Subversion, Michael describes how to set up a simple Subversion server for a multi-user project and describes some of the reports, charts and tables you can get about the activity in your project … Read more
There should always be a reason for a commit to source control, so why not make a log message mandatory when you commit, and make it easy add a link to a record in a bug-tracking system, or to another Log message? Michael Sorens explains how.… Read more
Here are recipes to manage Subversion source control revisions effectively, such as managing revisions, working out the current revision, whether it is up to date, working with more than one revision at a time, and getting notifications when certain files change.… Read more
Moving backwards in time in Subversion is like time travel in science fiction. It's fine to look around, but If you change anything it can have unforseen consequences, and you always have to return to the present. Snapshots enable you to navigate in source control to examine or compile the code as it existed at a point in time; to access a particular build.… Read more
Subversion lets you embed, and automatically update, information within source-controlled files to make it easy to see who did what, and when they did so. It is not entirely straightforward to get it working, though; unless of course you read, and follow, Michael's easy guide.… Read more
Michael Sorens continues his series on source control with Subversion and TortoiseSVN by describing several ways one can use to share code among several projects.… Read more
Subversion doesn't have to be difficult, especially if you have Michael Sorens's guide at hand. After dealing in previous articles with checkouts and commits in Subversion, and covering the various file-manipulation operations that are required for Subversion, Michael now deals in this article with file macro-management, the operations such as putting things in, and taking things out, that deal with repositories and projects.… Read more
The second part of Michael's series of articles gives more recipes for Subversion Source Control. This time he explains how to add files, highlights tools and techniques for determining what to include in source control and shows how to quickly and efficiently filter out the "noise".… Read more
For a large number of .NET developers, Subversion is Source Control. The book they go to to find out how to use it is O'Reilly's 'Version Control with Subversion'. Both Subversion and the book owe a great deal to the Subversion open source development team, including Michael Pilato of CollabNet, who has worked on the project for many years, almost since the project was founded in 2000 by Collabnet.… Read more
If you have more than zero developers in your team, then you need Source Control. In this article Michael starts a series that aims to provide clear and complete recipes for using Subversion, mainly through its simple, elegant, graphical interface: TortoiseSVN.… Read more
