Comments on: Best Practices for Version Control

By: Appropriate Checkin Comments « MTR

Appropriate Checkin Comments « MTR — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 13:56:04 +0000

[...] One developer writes: Many developers are sloppy about commenting their changes, and some may feel that commit messages are not needed. Either they consider the changes trivial, or they argue that you can just inspect the revision history to see what was changed. However, the revision history only shows what was actually changed, not what the programmer intended to do, or why the change was made. This can be even more problematic when people don’t do fine-grained commits, but rather submit a week’s worth of changes to multiple modules in one large pile. With a fine-grained revision history, comments can be useful to distinguish trivial from non-trivial changes in the repository. In my opinion, if the changes you made are not important enough to comment on, they probably are not worth committing either. [...]

By: Suggestions for a good commit message: format/guideline? - Programmers Goodies

Suggestions for a good commit message: format/guideline? - Programmers Goodies — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:57:17 +0000

[...] Here’s an extract from my recommended best practices for version control: [...]

By: Best Practices to Consider When Using a Version Control Tool | Version Control Notes

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:33:30 +0000

[...] within a version control system. If you would like to read the full article, you can find it at: http://blog.looplabel.net/2008/07/28/best-practices-for-version-control/. This entry was posted in Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. ← Seven Basics [...]

By: naplan

naplan — Tue, 18 May 2010 01:49:36 +0000

What do you think about Visual Source Safe in comparison to CVS. Thanks for the post.

By: Diego Vieira

Diego Vieira — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 11:32:34 +0000

Very usefull tips!
Thanks Anders

By: Dave Cantrell

Dave Cantrell — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:58:01 +0000

Anders,

Just wanted to say this is a great post. I was looking for exactly this kind of information and you summed everything up very nicely. Thanks for the info!

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Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:12:26 +0000

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By: Brian St. Pierre

Brian St. Pierre — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:19:59 +0000

Anders, thanks for this list. I’ve combined this with some thoughts from others and just posted this: http://blog.bstpierre.org/version-control-habits

Interested in any feedback you might have on the topic. Thanks!

-Brian

By: Veera

Veera — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:35:46 +0000

Very useful information.

Also if possible, could you please share some links to effectively use ‘trunk’ and ‘branch’ in Subversion?

Thanks.

By: Anders Sandvig

Anders Sandvig — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:52:31 +0000

You may also want to check out this interesting discussion on work cycles and commit frequencies (Coding Horror) and these notes on using version control with continuous integration systems (Tech Rock Guy).