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How to setup our codebase for efficient code sharing and development?
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At first, our company had 1 product. Custom hardware with firmware we wrote ourselves.
Now more projects are starting to be added. Many can reuse most of the components of our first ...
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Should i accept that a client adds changes to sourcecode on an ongoing development?
I'm currently in a situation (i'm a technical lead) where the client has modified on his own the source code, and i'm being told to accept the changes and keep working on that version. Technically he ...
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What is an interim version in Source Control?
I've been working on an open source project recently and have been checking out Core Infrastructure's best practices checklist.
One of the items pertaining the "Change Control" checklist is as ...
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Protect Part of the Code
My company works with different developers from different studios, always sharing the code to everyone aboard. At the moment, we need to protect a part of the code, not from theft but from some ...
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SVN / Git How to administer branches
I'm the technical lead for a small company (6 developers). We currently use SVN and we're slowly porting over to Git, after everyone gets their training.
Currently our clients are the ones who "pull ...
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Monorepo vs multi repo for large project with multiple partial deliveries
I am looking into options for smoothing out our deliver and release pipeline, and would appreciate some advice on the best way to structure the source code.
This is a pretty large project, which ...
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GitHub - Should I unassign an issue once closed?
Whenever I am using issue tracking on GitHub with my team, should we unassign people from the issue once we close it?
I don't know which way should be done, and if there is any advantage to ...
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If taking over code of a third party, what are the delivarables?
My team has to take over a project from an external company. They've provided the last state of trunk to us as a zip file and are trying to convince us, to accept this as a complete delivery of their ...
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How to find out the source code of the earliest release/version?
Reading source code of the early release/version is very helpful for beginner to digest complex project. There is less line of code and learner can see the progression of the project.
However, ...
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Maintain two different versions of similar code [duplicate]
I'm working on a special project where I need to create a new application with a similar but restricted functionality of an original application (basically a type of free application with limited ...
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Do I update the copyright header when i modify the source?
Suppose I were to modify a said piece of code and put it back on github, would I have to update the license header.
This is the code(Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0): https://github....
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Strategy for maintaining offline repository safely using git [closed]
I use git for versioning. Just yesterday I was working on refactoring my Python code base. After adding a test I found that I had introduced a bug in one of project euler solutions. So I checked out a ...
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Good idea to put bug numbers in a comment in the beginning of the source file? [closed]
Is it a good practice to put bug numbers in the file itself inside a header comment?
The comments would look something like this:
MODIFIED (MM/DD/YY)
abc 01/21/14 - Bug 17452317 - npe in drill ...
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Source control system for binary files [closed]
At work we have a legacy system written in Visual FoxPRO.
Everything in foxpro is a table, even forms, so basically if you open a form file with a text editor you don't learn much.
Does anyone know ...
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Are there revision repositories which implement commenting on revisions other than a fixed single commit message? [closed]
Sangdol asked: Why can’t I edit and SVN commit message? There are good reasons to maintain individual records ‘as is’ for historical purposes. However, there is an arguably objective hazard in not ...
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