If there is such a thing as divine retribution, then I’m pretty sure that most of the people on Microsoft’s SSIS product team will be spending eons merging SSIS packages. I took the following screenshot from an issue I reviewed at my old job. The developer who resolved the issue only made two property changes [...]
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What are Subversion hooks and why would you use them? Hooks are extension points that allow you to add behavior at various stages of the commit process through an executable file. The most useful one is the probably the pre-commit hook because it allows you to prevent a commit from occurring, thus providing a way [...]
We’ve almost completed our first week on Subversion and all is well. Here are a few pieces of advice to those of you about to embark on a VSS to SVN migration of your own. Spend Time Getting Buy-In from all Developers BEFORE the Migration – Force feeding a new tool to your co-workers is a recipe for disaster. Developers who aren’t [...]
I admit that the title is slightly misleading. There will obviously never be meaningful peace between the Microtards and Macophiles. Nevertheless, if you are currently languishing under an oppressive Visual Source Safe regime, then I hope to inspire you to rally your coworkers and end the source control tyranny once and for all. By switching [...]
Today it was decided that a bug fix that I recently added to our production branch in Visual Source Safe would not be included in an upcoming hotfix release as originally planned, so I was asked to remove it. My fix only touched 6 files, so my first thought was just to do it manually. [...]
Recent source control woes have inspired me to write this little poem about my least favorite source control system. VSS, I hate you so And I can not wait to see you go. You have the word safe in your name Yet since you came my IDE has crashed And my files have been trashed. [...]
