I'm currently using Perforce for source control, the files on my workstation in the source controlled workspace are tagged with read-only, Perforce uses this tag to help manage which file was checked-out. and Unreal Engine editor, takes advantage of that tag, and lets me know when certain file need to be checked out, I value this very much because sometimes you can be working on one asset, and affect many files without realizing it.
We also use Google drive with the Filestream client. This mounts a g:/ drive on my workstation that I put all of my work project folders, not just code, but everything day to day work stuff.
This setup works great for everything, except... Google drive does not support "read-only" tags and makes using perforce more inconvenient, having to reconcile the project, or manually check files out( I am used to it happening automatically).
Now for my question about PlasticSCM... I might consider making the switch, but I've never used PlasticSCM, would someone be able to tell me if it uses the read-only file tag so that I could have my working source folder on the google drive mount g: ?
Many thanks and appreciation.
If you decide to use Plastic SCM (or any other SCM), I don't fully understand why you plan to use it at the same time with Google Drive.
You can use a Plastic workspace from where you can checkin your changes to a cloud repository. Then other members of your team can create a local workspace pointing to the same repo and this way, they can be up to date with your last changes in the project.
Anyway, answering to your specific question:
Plastic SCM by default doesn't set local files are read-only in your workspace.
You can still manually enable this workflow with the following preference:
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I am trying to do an audit of the files I have in Plastic Cloud to see if there's anything in there that is hogging up space that we don't need in there, and I'm not sure exactly how to do that. What I have in my local workspace is not the same as what's in the cloud (because of ignore lists, if I'm understanding correctly?) so is there any way I can view what's in the cloud, or am I thinking about this all the wrong way?
The working copy downloaded in your machine is just the last version of the project, but the cloud storage includes all the history of the project (every previous revision for each file in different branches...)
From the branch explorer, you can right-click any changeset and select "Browse repository in this changeset". This way, you can check the tree of this specific changeset (including file paths and file sizes).
There is a recent feature that allows you to arrchive old file revisions in the cloud and this way, reduce the database usage. Please check: https://forum.plasticscm.com/topic/21799-trimming-to-reduce-size-of-the-database/?do=findComment&comment=45397
We need to monitor files in a share drive and check in file changes (new files or additions/deletions to existing files) to Team Foundation Server. Is it possible to map a TFS path to the shared drive and accomplish this ?
First,TFS is able to work with network/shared drivers. You could also create a workspace on the drive and mapped to TFS. You also be able to get latest and do some modification, then check in files.
So it's the same as monitoring files on a local drive and auto-check in to TFS. The most concern is the "auto-check in" operation, how would this be achieved. For example when you edit a file on the workspace in share drive, when would you check in files, after edit a character or a line, it's hard to judge when you finished the modification.
Actually if you are working on local workspace, your demand is by designed. When you had been modified externally VS or directly on files, TFS automatically checked them out without you having to do anything. The changes are added as a "pending change" status.
Lately you could check in the projects in the normal way and save the external modifications.
Certainly, you could also use tf command or TFS API to control the check-in operation.
We have a nopCommerce website of a client's that one of their IT guys was modifying views directly on the web server. They now want to do more extensive changes so we want to put the baseline NopCom code in TFS.
Then, ideally, we'd like to be able to identify all the views that were changed directly on the web server and have those changed views be recognize as changes in TFS source control to check-in.
Is there anyway to do this in Visual Studio/TFS in batch? i.e. it would be great to do a check-in locally so all the base code of NopCom was checked in to TFS, then download the website files and overwrite them in the local workspace and have TFS recursively do a diff and determine if any new files were added or existing ones changed and mark those for check-in.... I know...I'm probably dreaming, but any other smart workarounds appreciated as well, assuming this won't work.
TFS does what you want. To set up Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) on your dev machine, you just need to create a workspace and then add your code. Check link: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/tfvc/set-up-team-foundation-version-control-your-dev-machine
When your codebase is under version control, you can develop your app, create and open files in Solution Explorer and write your code, while version control does other work for you. When you check files in and out, it keeps track of your changes and creates a history of your project.
You can use the Diff window to clearly see the difference by comparing folders or files. You can compare server folders and local folders to each other, and view the differences between the contents of each folder. You can compare two server files, two local files, or a server file against a local file and view the differences between the files.
You can get more details about TFVC from website below: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/tfvc/overview
OK, I've been convinced that SVN is the way to go in a previous posting, but I haven't yet seen the epiphany. I'm not sure how I would set SubVersion up for my development environment.
Here's my current setup. I'm not keen to mess with it and it would be really nice if subversion could sit alongside it:
Work:
N:\Projects
N:\Projects\Lib
N:\Projects\App1
N:\Projects\App1\Help
N:\Projects\App1\Images
N:\Projects\App2
..etc
N: is on a separate server in the building.
There are several other development machines with the tools installed locally, but all development takes place referencing the files on the server - i.e. no source code is kept on the workstations.
Home
Laptop with same development toolset, and the sources in c:\Projects\App1.. etc, i.e. a mirror of the setup on n:\Projects at work.
The sources between N:\Projects and C:\Project are currently kept aligned with a custom app in conjunction with DropBox. File exclusions make sure that non-source files don't get sync'ed
I want to run SubVersion with this setup.
Where do I put the Repository?
Assuming I can have the repository in
a mutually accessible place, will SVN
remove the current need to sync
between work and home?
In order to embrace Subversion, you will replace your shared source directory with a Subversion repository that lives on the server. Each developer workstation will check out a copy of the whole source code locally (however, this could be a private area on a network server if you like).
You could retain your N:\Projects tree as a read-only copy of the daily build, or whatever. But one of the goals of Subversion is to mediate between two people editing the same file at roughly the same time. This is not compatible with a shared directory containing writable source code. Also, having multiple developers "share" the same Subversion working directory in some way is doomed to failure.
Why not create an internet accessible (free) trial Subversion account, and play around a bit, to get yourself familiar, before you move your entire source code tree into it. Just so you don't delete everything you own, by accident. Maybe start with one dummy project. Host something on the internet. Without even paying a cent, you could use this site:
http://www.projectlocker.com/
Then you can set up your very own starter subversion server. You can create a brand new Delphi application (file -> new delphi application), and add a button, and double click that button, and write a message box thingy, or whatever it is you like to do in demo apps. Now create a subversion repository (perhaps they call them projects, up on project locker), and add the folders you saved this project into, to that repository.
Now you can play with (a) tortoise SVN, (b) the SVN integration build into Rad Studio XE, if you have Rad Studio XE, and (c) the version control plugins that come in the JCL, if you don't have Rad Studio XE.
Also, may I suggest that if you want to have any hope of knowing what you're doing you learn how to add and commit, and update, from the command line. It's really not that hard. And it will pay off later.
Knowing you can type svn co http://reposite.something.com/svn/myproject to check out a project to your disk, is very handy. Sometimes, I think GUIs are training wheels for your brain. You cripple yourself if you don't learn command lines.
A benefit to a hosted subversion service like the one I showed above, is that you have an offsite backup. Of course, such hosting is always free even for large projects, if you are writing something open source. Then you can host on sourceforge. Otherwise, you're going to (a) need to use your own internet accessible host or (b) pay for hosting, otherwise you're not going to be able to easily access your repository at home, and at work.
Personally, if it was my own business, or my professional job to write software, I would host my own subversion server, and it would be private (LAN) only, and I would use a VPN to access it from home.
1: You definitely want a repository accessible from both locations. Either that, you you will need to use a distributed versioning system, like Mercurial or Git
2: Yes, there will be no more need for your custom sync app. This is exactly the job for your versioning system. Syncing manually in addition to using SVN is not necessary and would even create lots of conflicts.
Your shared directory should be removed and a copy of the code present on each machine that is a working copy of the SVN repository.
Use your server with the files to place the SVN server on it or any server that all including your home computer have access to.
Commit / Update every day, multiple time a day and manage merges if needed .
For the home access the simplest is to either get a dedicated server on the net or redirect the correct port on your router (but you will obviously need some access control in place) so that your repository is accessible from outside. If needed you could limit access from your home IP or from a list of IPs with a good router.
The other solution as other said is another kind of version system called "distributed" where every commit is done locally in your own repository on your own PC and this repository is merged on the "main" repository to share code and the change of other members of the team are pulled back in your local repository (You don't need any "main" repository technically on a DVCS but for a company that's what you will have).
See Git or Mercurial for good DVCS (Git syntax sucks but it's the most widely used system and technically the best one).
Put the repository in the safest place. That usually means a good redundant server (disks, etc.), in a controlled server room, and one which is properly backed up. When you switch to a VCS, source code to work on is typically in local machines sandboxes, because each developer must have its own. Then changes are get and sent to/from the server. Be aware that some tools may have issue is on a remote directory, because of the way for example the SMB protocol works - check they are supported explicitly if you need to use them. Unless you have paramount security needs, IMHO working in local sanboxes is faster and easier.
If you can access the SVN server from home (i.e. via a VPN), it will be not different than working from the office. You will "sync" (update/commit) your laptop sandbox the same way, you don't need a local server and repository. If you need a local server (reason could be you can't access the central repository from outside, need to work disconnected yet version files, etc.) there could be ways to replicate across SVN servers, but at that point maybe a distributed VCS should work better in such scenario.
I have a Project on CodePlex which is using TFS and I am using the TFS Plugin for Visual Studio. Now I have copied this project and worked on another PC without TFS and done some refactoring. Foolishly, I have then just used copy/paste and manual text editing to merge my changes, expecting that TFS just picks up the changes.
Apparantly, that is not the case.
Here is a screenshot of my local directory:
My Local TFS http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/2897/tfslocal.jpg
Notice how some files are missing the lock symbol - those are missing. If you look at the current TFS Tree on Codeplex, there are some files which do not exist locally anymore, i.e. WikiPlexExtensions.cs in the main folder.
Is there any way to easily tell TFS to compare my local to the remote repository and pick up the changes? I could re-add the local files using "Exclude from local project" and re-adding them, and I could create the "deleted" files as empty files just to delete them, but if I can avoid the manual messing around that would be good as well :)
The easiest way is to exploit VS 2008's "online" feature. Basically you want to set your solution offline, then bring it online while connected to the proper Codeplex server. TFS should figure out the rest.
Feature overview: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb898913.aspx
Tweaking the settings by hand: http://blogs.msdn.com/benryan/archive/2008/07/09/using-tfs-2008-power-tools-to-modify-server-s-offline-state.aspx
To compare local and server folders, you can check out TFS Power Tool. After installing it, you can bring up the source control explorer, right click on the server folder and then select 'Compare'. Folder difference window will display the differences. You can also right click on the differences to see available commands such as 'Get Latest' to update your local folder for example. Check out Bryan Harry's blog post on the power tool
I don't think there is an easy fix... What I've done in the past is back up those files that I have edited, then do a "Get Latest Version..." for the files I edited. This should change the files back to being read-only etc... Now, check out the files the regular way and paste the backups you had into the checked out files. Obviously this really only works when there are a couple of files you have edited.
TFS (in Visual Studio) has a "Reconcile" command for this, see Microsoft documentation, or this answer with steps.
BTW: This command may not haven been existing at time of original question, but this question came first when I was searching.