Posts Tagged by version control

ReviewBoard: Indispensable and Rather Spiffy

Code inspection is demonstrably one of the most powerful tools for preventing defects in software. For our own part, we who produce Saros have an inspection policy, whereby all but the most trivial changes committed to the version control system (VCS) must gather a minimum of two approving votes before being allowed. But how do… read more

First Saros Release of the Year: 11.1.7

Saros development has resumed normal service and last Friday made available its first release of 2011. To quote some interesting passages from the release notes: The integration of version control support (VCS) into Saros has been given its final consolidation. Developers can now collectively work on a project under version control and Saros will manage… read more

Poll results: Most used version control systems in Eclipse

The poll has been closed. After over 100 votes, Git has emerged as the winner, although not resoundingly so. The only notable “other” was ClearCase with about 6% of the vote. The final results table is below. Git 35% CVS 24% Mercurial 22% Other 12% Perforce 5% Bazaar 2% Thanks to all those who took… read more

Poll: What version control system do you use with Eclipse?

It was so much fun using the poll technology last time, I thought I would try again. You may be familiar with Saros — our plug-in which provides distributed collaborative editing in Eclipse — and you may even know that Saros now features version control system (VCS) integration, so that all participants can work directly… read more