how to maintain source code

Hello All - Have any of you faced a situation where the place you work does not have a version control software, and in that case what are the best way to maintain code files on your development machine? Thanks.

Version control software.  Always use it.  If the company doesn't want to use it, that's their [idiotic] prerogative, but there is no reason you can't with a local server. Subversion is trivially easy to set up a repository whatever your OS (download and install free binaries).  The cool kids are apparently using Git (I use Subversion) which doesn't need a repository, though my experience is that the GUI tools are rather lacking. In any case, version control shouldn't be a problem, even if it's just a personal setup.  But really, if you're working somewhere that doesn't want to use version control it seems like finding a different place to work might be a good idea.  There is a reason there are so many systems and it's a constant topic of discussion: it's REALLY important.  If not even more important. cheers, barneyb ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I recommend setting up a free account with unfuddle.com and in 10 minutes you'll have your codebase in SVN. -- Greg Luce Luce Consulting Services, Inc. www.luceconsulting.net (863) 273-0289 On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Barney Boisvert <bboisvert@gmail.com>wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

Using Git, CSV or subversion is super easy with Eclipse. You can maintain a local repo that tracks the changes you do, and also allows you to synch with a remote repo when you want to push a final code change. I like Git and Github a lot since it is free and easy to collaborate with, and I prefer to use EGit in Eclipse, it is simple to set up, and can have you up and running with a local repo in a few minutes. It is a good Idea to test locally before trying to work with a large repo, you do need to understand a few key terms before doing the big stuff, but it is well documented. http://www.eclipse.org/egit/ I also use TortoiseGit, which is a standalone gui for GIT. Tortoise also makes standalone gui's for Subversion and CSV. http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

> Have any of you faced a situation where the place you work does not have a > version control software, and in that case what are the best way to maintain > code files on your development machine? I have had a few of those cases. In all but one the answer was to take the time to start using version control. The one case where I have worked without version control was a client where ColdFusion was EOL, the other people lacked the skills and they had a very extensive system of scheduled tasks for change management and backups based on directory diff and merge. Those circumstances are quite exceptional, in general the answer is just to start using some sort of version control. Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/

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