Monthly Archives: April 2008

Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 3 of 3)

It’s such a lie to call this Part III. Feels like part 33, but I wanted to close out with a couple of final notes.
There’s only three:

1. DO NOT PUT EVERYTHING UNDER REVISION CONTROL

Really, it’s a bad idea. Everyone will make up different rules about this, but no matter what not everything should be placed [...]

Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.6b of 3)

Branching. You haven’t really used Subversion until you have branched something.


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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.6a of 3)

A final few notes for now. This part deals with Subversion’s revision numbering, and how to access previously stored versions of a saved document.


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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.5 of 3)

Part 5 is here. I’ve been having problems with my free hosting at openomy, but no matter I now have my own server running. When I get Apache up and running, I’ll host my stuff over there. For now, the video below comes directly from YouTube. Bad quality, but still does the job.
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Odd display problems on my blog?

I hope it’s just me, as articles are occasionally overlaying one on top of the other in my browser. I haven’t figured out why, but if you notice it, too, please let me know.

Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.4 of 3)

And here we cover “Checking in” and “Checking out” files. Silly me, since I haven’t been scripting these, you’ll notice in the beginning I say this one will be, “The shortest video so far.” Hah! and oops.
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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.3 of 3)

Part 2.3: Organization
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