Version Management Inquiry

Group: On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made will not be lost or overwritten? Ideas? ---------- []

> On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I > am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so > developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups > make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work > losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time > where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made > will not be lost or overwritten? Until a few months ago I was using CVS, but I am migrating to Subversion and I am superhappy: http://subversion.tigris.org/ I use this as GUI: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Fundamental reading: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ ---------------------------- Massimo Foti http://www.massimocorner.com Co-Author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic: http://www.dwmagic.com/

If you are running on Windows or even Unix, using CVS would definitely help you. During my previous job, which was a team of 3 developers, I incorporated CVSNT (Windows version of CVS) to our development environment. We were using winCVS as a GUI for various configuration relegated tasks. Qasim Group: On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made will not be lost or overwritten? Ideas? ---------- []   _____  

Graham,   As a "shortcut" before resorting to version control software which requires a bit of setup/management I've used a tool called "Beyond Compare" for a few years. In an environment of 2 developers you can get by using this tool. Using your own development environment when you make changes and want to implement those changes to a dev or production server, it will show you a list of differences in the files. Just never allow complete file uploads to overwrite existing pages. Always use Beyond Compare and it opens the 2 different versions of files with differences highlighted. Only copy the changes you made to the desired server. It works through network and FTP. I think it's only around $40 Greg Group: On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made will not be lost or overwritten? Ideas? ---------- []   

I would at the very least use Dreamweavers CheckIn/Out feature if you are using Dreamweaver MX 2k4. If not then use CVS or Visual Source Safe. CVS is free but requires a little more work to get set up. Ben Group: On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made will not be lost or overwritten? Ideas? ---------- [] ________________________________

an often touched upon thread http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=search <http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=search&forumid=4>; &forumid=4 to search the CF-Talk archives You have...shout over the cube version control, CVS, Subversion, MS Visual Source Safe among your choices. Doug Group: On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made will not be lost or overwritten? Ideas? ---------- []   _____  

Massimo, how 'superhappy'?  I'm thinking of moving over to Subversion.  How stable is it now?  How difficult was it converting the CVS repository over? Doug > On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I > am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so > developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups > make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work > losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time > where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made > will not be lost or overwritten? Until a few months ago I was using CVS, but I am migrating to Subversion and I am superhappy: http://subversion.tigris.org/ I use this as GUI: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Fundamental reading: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ ---------------------------- Massimo Foti http://www.massimocorner.com Co-Author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic: http://www.dwmagic.com/   _____  

> Massimo, how 'superhappy'?  I'm thinking of moving over to Subversion. CVS has all those shortcomings that, along the years, you get used to, Subversion solves all of them. That's why I can't look back anymore. I am talking about: - Directories, renames, and file meta-data versioning - Atomic commits - Cheap branching - Better handling of binary files > How stable is it now? Rock solid for me, but I don't do anything fancy, no huge repository, very small amount of people connected. Anyway, looking at the mailing-list, there are many succes stories > How difficult was it converting the CVS repository over? I haven't tried that yet. I am using it for brand new projects. There are Pythin scripts for it I would suggest to start with a "pilot project", something small, and see how it goes Massimo

Massimo, Is there a extension for DWMX 2k4 to use subversion? Thanks, Ben > On one of my projects I am working with a fellow coldfusion developer and I > am wondering how other small groups deal with the item of 2 or so > developers working on the same overall project. How does these small groups > make sure that files with changes do not get overwritten and have work > losts. At the present time, we are just communicating and blocking out time > where we will not be in a specific file or directory so the changes made > will not be lost or overwritten? Until a few months ago I was using CVS, but I am migrating to Subversion and I am superhappy: http://subversion.tigris.org/ I use this as GUI: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ Fundamental reading: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/ ---------------------------- Massimo Foti http://www.massimocorner.com Co-Author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic: http://www.dwmagic.com/ ________________________________

>  Is there a extension for DWMX 2k4 to use subversion? > I am not aware of any dedicated extension. I would use TortoisesSVN anyway, since DW's isn't the only editor I use ---------------------------- Massimo Foti http://www.massimocorner.com Co-Author of Dreamweaver MX 2004 Magic: http://www.dwmagic.com/