Thank you all for the information. I will be reading a lot and trying to make the best decision!
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 12:24 AM, Kym Kovan <[email protected]>wrote: > > On 31/08/2010 11:16, Mallory Woods wrote: > > > > I just started looking a git to use for source control for our CF > projects. > > I wanted to ask those who are using it a few questions..... > > git is a distributed version control system so having a central > repository is fine for later, completed versions but it might be worth > considering having a local repo for each developer so that they can save > and version control internally and then when they are happy with their > current work snippet push that back to a common/shared repo. That way > you get some independence otherwise you are not doing much more than > what svn does. > > Also you might consider looking at mercurial rather than git as it has a > better fit with Windows machines. > > For example here we use Mercurial and every developer has a local set of > repos on their workstation which they work with and when they have > finished code synchronise from that back to a central repo where they > can share their work with others. We actually have several central repos > for test/stage levels of goodness of code rather than branching, the two > are almost synonymous in distributed version control systems and > synchronising between repos is simplicity itself (in Mercurial at least). > > If you want to get really fancy and you have developers on the move or > with more than one workstation, desktop and notebook for example, then > you can have another repo on a central server for that developer to sync > up to from one workstation so that they can then pull that update down > onto their other workstation. They can then keep code current on two > machines without having half-good code in the main repos for other > people to trip over. > > > -- > > Yours, > > Kym Kovan > mbcomms.net.au > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336664 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
