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Questions tagged [version-control]

Version Control are systems that allow users to keep track of file modifications in an efficient manner. Target files are usually source code, and users are generally programmers.

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Tips for putting ~ under source control

I want to put my home directory (~) under source control (git, in this case), as I have many setting files (.gitconfig, .gitignore, .emacs, etc.) in there I would like to carry across machines, and having them in Git would make it nice for…
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Are there pitfalls to putting $HOME in git instead of symlinking dotfiles?

I have for many years had my entire $HOME directory checked into subversion. This has included all my dotfiles and application profiles, many scripts, tools and hacks, my preferred basic home directory structure, not a few oddball projects and a…
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Github adding a repository as a fork from an existing clone

So I have a git repository that I cloned from an upstream source on github. I made a few changes to it (that are uncommitted in the master branch). What I want to do is push my changes onto my github page as a new branch and have github still see it…
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How shall I understand the unified format of diff output?

From diffutils' manual Next come one or more hunks of diff erences; each hunk shows one area where the files differ. Unified format hunks look like this: @@ from-file-line-numbers to-file-line-numbers…
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version control for /etc under *BSD

What turnkey solutions exist to put /etc under version control, under various unices? Turnkey doesn't necessarily mean part of the base install, but the following features would be nice: hooks into VCS commands to manage metadata (ownership,…
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How to know the source repository of a package in debian?

In Debian, AFAIK some packages are maintained in Subversion (famously team-pkg-gnome), while some are maintained in git, and others in some other VCS. Is there a way to know where the source of a package is without doing an apt-get source…
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Linux File Versioning?

We are migrating from A VMS environment to a Linux environment for some old alpha servers we are decommissioning. The one challenge I have not been able to overcome is file versioning. VMS keeps multiple copies of the same file by using a version…
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tool or technique to get a diff of two different linux installations

Albert Einstein quote Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results Often-times, Linux drives me mad because I'm doing the same thing over and over again and getting different results from box to box. (See…
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Change a directory name in a Github repository remotely, directly from local Linux Git?

This is my Git repository: https://github.com/benqzq/ulcwe It has a dir named local and I want to change its name to another name (say, from local to xyz). Changing it through GitHub GUI manually is a nightmare as I have to change the directory…
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Keep a history of all the modifications to a text file

I have a plain text file (not containing source code). I often modify it (adding lines, editing existing lines, or any other possible modification). For any modification, I would like to automatically record: what has been modified (the diff…
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Zsh: consistent history between machines

Use case: distribute zsh's history between machines in source control. Is that something that I can achieve with zsh's history -- put history in version control the sync between machines? This is to avoid re-typing commands and quick trace.
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Good introduction to Subversion for inexperienced users?

Can you suggest a good introduction to Subversion for UNIX (or Mac OS X) users? It can assume familiarity with basic command-line usage, but not any advanced topics (with bash scripting counting as "advanced usage" here...) Ideally, the guide…
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Git - handle symlink as if it was a file

Is there a way to make git handle a symlink as if it was a file. If I just normally add a symlink like git add symlink, git just stores/controlls the path to the file, not the linked file. Is it possible to make git handle a symlink as if it was the…
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Is it possible to store user's crontab in user's git repository on OpenBSD?

On OpenBSD and with OpenBSD's cron and crontab, is it possible to store the crontab(5) of a user in a git repository of the same user? What would be the proper way to accomplish something like this? (To steer the answer into the correct direction, I…
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Subversion: how to determine when files became corrupt

I'm using Subversion just for private synchronization between a laptop and a desktop. Recently I discovered that several ASCII files and several binary files were corrupted. Instead of the expected contents, a long series of file names and directory…
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