What does your team use to share code?

[frcteam2501]

What happens if you have 2 programmers working on code at the same time? Does dropbox try to merge your codes? or does it just take the newest one?

[yash101]

Git is probably a really good way to keep your code, even if you are programming yourself. I have a GitHub account and it has saved me a lot of work.

Just yesterday, I had a problem, where I was pushing a small change to my repo in the sky at GitHub. I tried to remove the build folder using the command:

PHP Code:

rm -r *build 


I forgot "build" and all of a sudden, my command became:

PHP Code:

rm -r * 


Too bad so sad for the work done. It's alright though. My change was quite small. Because of that, I just cloned the repo again and redid that change.
It took me about 15 minutes to fix my large mistake.
If I didn't use GitHub, I would have lost 2 weeks of work!

[frcteam2501]

Does anyone know of any examples on how to use Github for FRC C++?

[yash101]

My repositories are about 90% C/C++ .
Feel free to check out every inch of it
https://github.com/yash101
To download a repository,
user@dev~/soft $ git clone <location of repository>

[Jpatterson1710]

Dropbox overwrites with the newest saved version. Thats why we just keep numbered versions (V1, V1.1, V2, V2.1).

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Jpatterson1710

Dropbox overwrites with the newest saved version.

Dropbox actually does give you the ability to restore previously saved versions of a file.* But it isn't really set up for the kind of version control that would be useful for most teams.

Thats why we just keep numbered versions (V1, V1.1, V2, V2.1).

Our "numbered versions" are copies of the project folder with the time and date appended to the name of the folder.


* That came in handy once when I accidentally saved an empty copy of my son's senior design project. I think he still isn't aware that it happened.

[Team118Joseph]

During the season we use one of our facilities desktops as a SVN server. After the season ends we publish the code on our team's website.

[FRC2501]

Thanks for all the help!
I have been using GitHub for a few weeks and it has been working great! (They even gave our team bronze for free!)

Now comes the hardest part, convincing the Programming Captain that GitHub is better than flash drives, he refuses to use GitHub (maybe because he's a Senior and a Sophomore set it up and knows more than him?) and I need to convince him that GitHub is easier to use and better for organizing the 10+ programmers we now have.

[notmattlythgoe]

Originally Posted by FRC2501

Thanks for all the help!
I have been using GitHub for a few weeks and it has been working great! (They even gave our team bronze for free!)

Now comes the hardest part, convincing the Programming Captain that GitHub is better than flash drives

That's easy, take the flash drive, and hide it.

[FRC2501]

Originally Posted by notmattlythgoe

That's easy, take the flash drive, and hide it.

I wish, he keeps 2 on his keychain

[baumgartensam]

Originally Posted by FRC2501

I wish, he keeps 2 on his keychain

Send him over to this thread Git is one of the primary version control technologies used in industry and it's good to get familiar with it, especially if you are going into a software engineering job. It allows you to see who changed what, have multiple people editing the same files at once, and rollback any major changes that create issues.

Also, on a completely separate but relevant note:

You may not want to use what I'm about to say if you've never used git before, but Atlasssian will provide Jira (a bug tracker) to FRC teams for free. It integrates with Github so you can link commits to specific bug. Just thought I would let some other people know if they didn't already. We use Jira constantly for managing our bugs and what everyone on our programming team is doing. I also use Jira at work and I have nothing but good things to say about it (other than a few more complicated features being ... well ... to complicated).

[tcjinaz]

Originally Posted by FRC2501

I wish, he keeps 2 on his keychain

We keep the stick in a special drawer in the tool box. The team knows that there will be great trouble if anything happens to it.

Plus a copy goes on my drive immediately.

If the development laptops could get to the internet we would take a shot at GitHub, but the school district's IT department is kind of tightly wound.

Tim

[xXhunter47Xx]

Originally Posted by tcjinaz

We keep the stick in a special drawer in the tool box. The team knows that there will be great trouble if anything happens to it.

Plus a copy goes on my drive immediately.

If the development laptops could get to the internet we would take a shot at GitHub, but the school district's IT department is kind of tightly wound.

Tim

Interesting on the IT department. We are able to use Github (both in AP CompSci and in Robotics, with personal and school computers) with no issue.
I strongly suggest you talk to the Site Tech or someone with administrative properties, Github is a very useful resource especially when you have more than 3 code monkeys.

[FRC2501]

Originally Posted by tcjinaz

We keep the stick in a special drawer in the tool box. The team knows that there will be great trouble if anything happens to it.

Plus a copy goes on my drive immediately.

If the development laptops could get to the internet we would take a shot at GitHub, but the school district's IT department is kind of tightly wound.

Tim

I found a way to bypass my school's ssh block

[Spoam]

Originally Posted by FRC2501

Thanks for all the help!
I have been using GitHub for a few weeks and it has been working great! (They even gave our team bronze for free!)

Now comes the hardest part, convincing the Programming Captain that GitHub is better than flash drives, he refuses to use GitHub (maybe because he's a Senior and a Sophomore set it up and knows more than him?) and I need to convince him that GitHub is easier to use and better for organizing the 10+ programmers we now have.

If he doesn't learn to use git now, he'll definitely need to learn to use it in the future. I interned for a multi-billion dollar software company, and even they have a GitHub repository (along with their own git server). If he wants to be serious about programming version control is a must. Good luck!