Proven Source Control Practises Poster
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Maybe one of the toughest things in software development to get right all the time: source control. Well, now with this nice bright A3 poster printed on your wall (or maybe above the monitor of the person who breaks the builds daily), you’ll never go wrong again.
It covers 17 proven practices, broken into 5 key areas:
Things you should do
- Keep up to date
- Be light and quick with checkouts
- Don’t check in unneeded binaries
- Working folders should be disposable
- Use undo/revert sparingly
Branching
- Plan your branching
- Own the merge
- Look after branches
Management
- Useful & meaningful check-in messages
- Don’t use the audit trial for blame
Repository
- Don’t break the build
- Separate your repo
- Don’t forget to shelve
- Use labels
Technology
- Try concurrent access
- Don’t be afraid of branching concepts
- Automerge for checkout only