Pending Changes

October 1st, 2008

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One of the great habits now ingrained into my being are doing diffs on code before committing a check in. It’s a great habit, and worth the extra quick 2 minutes. It’s also a great time to review your changes and get your head into the right space for your next move. Of course, having [...]

Bzr

September 10th, 2008

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Bzr have just launched their latest version. And while i’ve used it for development control on my *nix, i’ve also migrated it’s use onto Windows. The earlier versions were all very command-liney and so un-windows-like, but in it’s defence, the good ‘ol command line really is pretty fast and efficient for some tasks. Anyhoooo….
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Subversion and Bzr

April 4th, 2008

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Subversion has been a friend of mine for some time now. Given the order of environments I have been required to work in, it’s more than suited our needs… anyhooo. Then there’s Bzr which has really grown on me, especially for offline version control. But what is really cool, is using both of them. I [...]