This is the third article in a series where I discuss how I dealt with the challenge of maintaining two separate but similar web sites in source control. This kind of scenario doesn’t really follow the Version->Maintenance->Next Version linear development process. Instead, it has common code and separate themes.
In article one, I talked about [...]
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In a previous article, I discussed with you how I might deal with the challenge of maintaining two separate but similar web sites in a Mercurial source control system. These sites don’t really follow the Version->Maintenance->Next Version linear development process. Instead, they have common code and separate themes. I mentioned three options [...]
Arggh! Accurev! Your only support for Ubuntu is for Hardy and earlier? What’s up with that? In their defense, Accurev actually runs on 32-bit versions of Lucid… But you’ll find it will die without an error on 64-bit versions of the OS… The only way around it is to install a 32-bit version of Lucid. [...]
I was stuck in a strange situation today. Typically in software development, branches are used for “one offs” – such as a maintenance branch off of a major line of code.
My dilemma today was slightly different. I have an existing web site and I need to make a some-what duplicate of it for [...]
Did you know that open source Meld (a source differentiation tool) is able to interact with both CVS and Subversion? Pretty easy to use – just click “newâ€, choose the tab called “Version Control Browser†and then navigate to the proper source directory.
I don’t really use CVS anymore unless a client requires [...]
My name is Sean Kenefick and I work at cmReady Systems down here in San Diego, California. My specialty is software configuration management, but I also work with virtualization and encryption. In addition to having been a long time developer in the San Francisco Bay and San Diego areas, I’ve also been [...]