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Last updated: 14 May, So what are some SCM best practices? Simple steps that can be taken to reduce development risk and improve efficiency Starting with the basics, choose a source control system. Ensure the working file is from the latest version of the source file. Only check-out the file being worked upon.
Check in immediately after alterations are completed. Review every change before committing. Use the diff function! Small commits make it easier for other developers to understand the changes and roll them back if something went wrong.
With tools like the staging area and the ability to stage only parts of a file, Git makes it easy to create very granular commits. Committing often keeps your commits small and, again, helps you commit only related changes.
Moreover, it allows you to share your code more frequently with others. Having few large commits and sharing them rarely, in contrast, makes it hard to solve conflicts. Download our free "Cheat Sheet Package" - with these and other tips for Git and version control!
It's free! Test it thoroughly to make sure it really is completed and has no side effects as far as one can tell. You break tasks into smaller units so you can commit atomically. You integrate more frequently. You insure yourself against those pesky local hardware failures. Declining burn down charts or ticked off tasks lists are great, but what do they actually reconcile with?
Unless they correlate with working code in source control, they mean zip. When you work this way, your commit history inevitably starts to resemble a semi-regular pattern of multiple commits each work day. However, when I see an individual — and particularly an entire project — where I know we should be in a normal development cycle and there are entire days or even multiple days where nothing is happening, I get very worried.
Either way, something is wrong and source control is waving a big red flag to let you know. Committing code into source control is easy — too easy! Makes you wonder why the previous point seems to be so hard. Anyway, what you end up with is changes and files being committed with reckless abandon. What happens is one or both of two things: Firstly, people inadvertently end up with a whole bunch of junk files in the repository.
This is real easy to do once you get things like configuration or project definition files where there are a lot going on at once. Can you really remember everything you changed in that config file?
The solution is simple: you must inspect each change immediately before committing. This is easier than it sounds, honest. You never want to commit the Thumbs.
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