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iblis432 03-01-2011 18:12

Re: Version control without internet?
 
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Originally Posted by demosthenes2k8 (Post 990226)
iblis, that works...adequately...for one person, or maybe even two, but with a larger team || a more complex project, it's not always the way to go. Source Control allows you to track multiple design paths safely (person A is implementing feature X, person B is testing feature Y), as well as have safe, simple backups of your files. Especially if you need to jump back several times to fix a bug.
TL;DR: Use source control. It may seem to be more than needed, but it can save you at competition.

I know, and I wouldn't exactly reccomend it for large programming teams, but I find the complexity of subversion servers to be a little pointless for a project as small FRC. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like just manually saving would be faster than going through the server and especially for retrieving old forms.

demosthenes2k8 03-01-2011 19:10

Re: Version control without internet?
 
Yet using a version control system that's distributed - such as HG - gives you the benefit of being able to read exactly which changes were made, and when, with diffs, without the annoying difficulty of setting up an SVN server.

Hugh Meyer 04-01-2011 09:40

Re: Version control without internet?
 
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Originally Posted by iblis432 (Post 990545)
I know, and I wouldn't exactly reccomend it for large programming teams, but I find the complexity of subversion servers to be a little pointless for a project as small FRC. Maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like just manually saving would be faster than going through the server and especially for retrieving old forms.

It really is not that complex to set up a subversion server. I did a session in 2009 in Atlanta that explains what you need and gives some detail how to do it. You can find the slides at: http://thinktank.wpi.edu/article/158

Once you start using it you will never go back to your old way...

Hugh


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