Having a local Git repository is great, it lets you keep versioned copies of your work, and doesn’t take up much space. But if you need to share your repository with someone else, such as with a development environment, you quickly find you need a simple way of keeping the repository up to date, and allowing access to other people. Email and thumb drives are soon not enough to keep up with the pace of development. What you need is a server to keep all the information in.

I’m going to show you how we have things setup, and hopefully guide you in your quest to have a remote repository that works for you.

Assumptions:

First off I’m going to assume you have a server setup somewhere, and that you have ssh and root(or sudo) access. This is written for FreeBSD, but the steps should be similar enough on pretty much any Linux or BSD distro.
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Tags: freebsd, git, hosting, repository, scm, server, Subversion

Posted: July 22nd, 2008 under Computers, Projects, Subversion, git.
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I’m looking to write a subversion best pratices guide for work, so the developers can keep conflicts to a minium, and everything repository-wise keeps running smoothly.

I’m looking for things like, when to create branches, when to merge back into trunk, when to commit, etc…

Leave some suggestions in the comments, and I’ll try to roll them into a catch-all guide that maybe some other people can use.

Tags: repository, Subversion, svn

Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Subversion.
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