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SVN Merge – Selecting Changesets

By tewari | Published: April 25, 2010
Here is a simple scenario – I have already merged changesets 45-55 from the trunk to branch b1. After this merge, more changes (56-60) were submitted into the trunk and I now need to merge those changes also to branch b1. Which changesets do you select to merge ? 56-60, right ? Well, not exactly. It [...]
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Code Validation in TortoiseSVN pre_commit_hook

By tewari | Published: March 31, 2010
If you want to abort a commit if your code fails certain rule and you don’t have access to the SVN Server to configure a hook. What do you do ? Assuming you are using TortoiseSVN, you can configure a Client-Side hook. Here is an example – Say you want to abort commit if you have a [...]
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Database Schema Version Control Tool

By tewari | Published: February 18, 2008
It is essential to treat database schema as source code and apply all the norms and best practices applicable to it. From what I hear and read, database schema version control is non-existent in too many projects. Various techniques to accomplish version control of database schemas have been discussed and published. Martin [...]
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