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Re: Source control (Was: Visual Basic 5)

From Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
Subject Re: Source control (Was: Visual Basic 5)
Date 2014-05-20 10:19 +0100
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On 20/05/2014 09:32, John Mott wrote:
> On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:36:35 +0100, Deanna Earley
> <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> wrote:
>> Also, restore from backup or source control when it breaks :)
>> (I'll keep mentioning source control till you take the hint, everything
>> you've said so far implies that you aren't using it.
>
> My method of source control consists of copious hand scrawled notes
> and occassional backups to another file name. I had a search on the
> web and saw quite a few source control programs such as VSS and GIT
> but did not pursue the matter. What form of source control would you
> recommend ?

Personally I use Mercurial, but git is equally capable, and both are 
distributed so no need for a central server.

Check out hginit.com.

After each change (feature, bug fix, etc) do a commit. You can then 
easily see what has changed, and when something else goes wrong or is 
deleted, you can very easily revert.

-- 
Deanna Earley (dee.earley@icode.co.uk)
iCatcher Development Team
http://www.icode.co.uk/icatcher/

iCode Systems

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Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-04-25 16:21 +0800
  Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-25 07:46 -0500
    Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-25 10:47 -0500
      Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-04-26 10:43 +0800
        Re: Visual Basic 5 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-04-26 11:59 -0400
        Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-04-26 13:48 -0500
          Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-02 17:02 +0800
            Re: Visual Basic 5 Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-02 10:29 +0100
              Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-04 15:44 +0800
            Re: Visual Basic 5 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-02 14:21 -0400
            Re: Visual Basic 5 RW <RonW@no_domain.invalid> - 2014-05-02 15:27 -0400
              Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-04 15:48 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-04 04:03 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-08 17:30 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-08 17:58 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 08:52 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 09:47 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-08 11:38 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 RW <RonW@no_domain.invalid> - 2014-05-08 15:20 -0400
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-09 15:32 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-11 16:03 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-11 11:29 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 GS <gs@somewhere.net> - 2014-05-11 14:28 -0400
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-11 12:59 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-11 14:04 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-11 14:32 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-12 16:49 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-12 22:34 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-13 14:51 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-13 17:12 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-13 08:01 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-13 09:36 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-13 09:43 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-13 09:55 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-13 10:16 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-13 13:24 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-14 17:30 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-14 07:05 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-15 16:58 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-15 07:37 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-16 17:24 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-16 13:58 +0100
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-17 17:13 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-18 16:05 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-18 04:14 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-19 17:28 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-19 10:36 +0100
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-20 16:32 +0800
                Re: Source control (Was: Visual Basic 5) Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-20 10:19 +0100
                Re: Source control (Was: Visual Basic 5) ralph <nt_consulting@yahoo.com> - 2014-05-20 11:59 -0500
                Re: Visual Basic 5 John Mott <johnmott@iinet.net.au> - 2014-05-20 16:40 +0800
                Re: Visual Basic 5 Deanna Earley <dee.earley@icode.co.uk> - 2014-05-19 08:55 +0100
                Re: Visual Basic 5 "Henning" <computer_hero@coldmail.com> - 2014-05-16 12:06 +0200
                Re: Visual Basic 5 "Mayayana" <mayayana@invalid.nospam> - 2014-05-04 09:32 -0400
                Re: Visual Basic 5 "Bill Skaggs" <eaglecrest@att.net> - 2014-05-04 06:34 -0700

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