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Questions tagged [revision-control]

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How to push changes from a live deployment web server back to the git repository

I'm working in an environment where the developers work directly with script and image files on the live deployment web server. This is scary and has caused a few, though so far surprisingly few, issues. Source control is not used at all for these…
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Text editor that saves difference in revisions only, not complete historical copies

I use a text editor for my long to do list, and wish to keep record of what items get removed off it. However, don't want to have multiple copies of the 1/4Mb file existing on storage media. Is there any text editor that will only save the changes…
user66001
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Is there a way to match — or clean up — a forked git local repository branches to what exists upstream?

I have a fork of ERPNext from several months ago. Upstream has cleaned out a lot of branches since I forked, so my repo now has 184 branches, while upstream only has 41 branches. Is there a way to sync the removal of those branches?
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Git revision control on a binary file (that seems only to have text)

A program I use (TopSolid) saves it's settings in the top.cfg file. When I open the file with a text editor (notepad++ and notepad) I can see only text. Sample: A_COATING_NAME "" A_FINISHING_NAME "" A_MATTER_NAME …
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Hide the comments when writing the Word document

I added some comments to the word document I'm writing, but I don't want to display them on my screen. This is what I see now: I want to hide the grey panel that contains the red blocks. I tried configuring print settings: Unchecking the print…
Tomáš Zato
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Software Which Enables Checking Folders In And Out

It will be easier if I explain what I would use it for than explaining what it does. I am part of a student television and we have several editing pcs. At the moment the structure we have with all the files isn't great and I'm trying to organise it…
Tom Jenkinson
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TFS lost binding to solution

Right now I have 2 solutions I'm working on. I checked them both into TFS, but for some reason the changes I make in the 2nd one do not seem to check them out and there is no red check mark next to them. Also, when I right-click the files in that…
micahhoover
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Revision control system for word processing?

I'd like to host an online collaborative document. Ideally I'd manage it with patchsets where anybody can upload a patch, but it has to go through a review process before being merged (similar to git/gerrit). Text is all it needs, formatting isn't…
Chris
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"Permission Denied" using RCS commands (ci and co) as root

I've su'd into our company server as the root user (verified with id, I show up as user 0). I'm trying to use the Revision Control System to check in and check out files, but even as root, I'm getting "Permission Denied" when I try to run ci on the…
Burmy
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Delete older revisions, only keeping the latest. Tortoise SVN

So I'm using Tortoise SVN for my maker projects...it always includes a folder video. the content of the video folder changes in each revision. This means each commitment means another version of a large video file.....after a few commitments, the…
Mark Donners
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`git add --interactive` and `git commit filename` confusion

Committing only parts of your edits is possible by using either git add --interactive or git commit filename. However when combining both methods the results are unexpected. For example you "stage" one out of four hunks in file1 (among other staging…
U. Windl
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How to intelligently manage multiple documents with live references to each other that are edited by different groups of people?

Say that my organization has a document that has all of its quality management procedures. We also have a document that has all the technical operating instructions. There's also a third document that has all of the customer interface…
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Accidentally erased large chunk of text from Word doc saved in OneDrive, why can I not restore it from the version history?

I have been working on a document in Word for a few weeks. I have been saving it to OneDrive, and editing it in Word online, macOS, and Android clients. I have been making edits to it multiple times a day, every single day. Today (Saturday the 2nd…
Fiksdal
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