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Super Lloyd wrote: But since 2 weeks of work from an other developer can drop anytime
This is probably the biggest issue. Having that much work without merging is bad joojoo. Unless people are working on completely separate sections of the project that much work is likely to always cause merge conflicts.
Feature branches are one way to go if it's possible.
It would be important to me to find a way to section off work so it can be merged in as it's completed if there's no dev branch. Like getting backend code finished and checked in as a "slice" before doing the front end and/or controller part. Any way to get functional chunks of code in without taking 2 weeks to put in huge chunks.
That sounds bad man.
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I don't understand how everyone working off of the main branch would even work, that seems ridiculous to me. Topic branches are the standard way of doing things and IMO the best way of doing things.
Let's say you and another colleague are tasked with adding a feature, say adding a new window to an app. He starts to work on the view model, and you work on the UI. He finishes a portion of the view model and you want to start testing your UI with it while he finishes the rest. How the heck would you accommodate this without a "feature/new window" branch that you can both push to and pull from? You shouldn't be merging a half-finished view model into the main branch because now everyone else will have a half finished view model when they pull!
Or let's say you get sick and need to take a few days off and someone else has to finish up your work...that means:
a) they can't because you haven't been pushing code from your local repo to a feature branch in the company repo at the end of each day, or
b) he can because you've been pushing incomplete buggy code to the main branch which gets pulled any time anyone pulls the main repo, so now everyone has your half finished code in their code base and has to deal with whatever problems that may cause
The way you were using git before and the issues you are having with it now is clearly an organization and management problem. If you guys had someone good at managing distributed projects directing things it would be a world of a difference. I would suggest hiring a consultant who is good at this to help you guys develop a better process.
Everyone should be committing many times a day to their local repo, and pushing to the company repo at the end of each day or when they finish something and want to share progress with someone else working on the topic. If the main branch gets some significant updates then you can merge those with the topic branch regularly so that when you finally finish the topic 2 weeks after you started you don't have 2 weeks of merge conflicts to fix all at once, rather you only have to deal with any issues from the last merge you did a day or two ago.
Responsibility should be managed such that people working on different topics are extremely unlikely to change the same files.
Git is a beautiful thing if used properly, but that requires good management with well thought out processes, discipline on the dev team and well organized code with good separation of concerns.
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Super Lloyd wrote: is it common practice to have every developer working on its own branch instead of the whole team working on a common branch?
It depends on whether you want to resolve merge conflicts between two branches or merge conflicts between two commits. The best advice I can give you to avoid merge conflicts is to either work alone or re-review your architecture (unlikely to happen).
I have worked in both cases, and working on separate branch feels better, since no merge requests are done at the end of the workday and finishing a bug/feature is unlikely to align with the workday schedule. As a result, not everything that goes into the central repository is complete (and tested). So if it is untested, it is better to be on its own branch.
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I guess that is why I could never get my head around "version control" if one was a one man band.
A typical "project" includes images, pdf's, text files, utilities, etc. Accumulating over time.
I zip everything every day or 2 and create 10 or more generations. Covered most brain fogs.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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All features should be on a different branch. If you are getting lots of conflicts then I have to wonder about your project architecture. Are you using something like PrismLibrary to separate out your modules?
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Plan your work in small units (1 day) if possible. Except where specifically required squash the history of your local branch (git rebase -i) down to a single commit. You'll simplify resolution of merge conflicts, keep your features as atomic units, and keep your history clean of junk comments. Your workflow should look something like: pull master -> branch -> commit -> squash -> rebase -> push pull request -> review -> ff merge -> repeat.
Commit -> squash -> rebase gets repeated as a whole or individually as needed.
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Markdown Tables generator - TablesGenerator.com
Pasted some Excel data into it, clicked generate, clicked copy to clipboard, pasted into BitBucket wiki, done. Took less time than writing this post!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Markdown Tables generator - TablesGenerator.com
Hey @John-Simmons-outlaw-programmer, look they do latex as well, not too sure if that also covers full body suits.
Marc, this goes waaayyyyyy back, pretty sure very few will ghet this, not sure if John's memory will remember.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I can't get to the page from work. My Latex Appendage Suit hasn't seen much action of late. I don't even think I'm flexible enough anymore to get into it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Nice. You should probably post this in the Free Tools forum[^], so it's less likely to get lost. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You should probably post this in the Free Tools forum, so it's less likely to get lost.
I think I lost the brain cells that knew about that forum. 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Thank you, Marc! 
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raddevus wrote: I've recently read one that is close and is really fantastic
Hah, chapter 25 has a section called Hunt the Wumpus! Awesome, I wonder how many people nowadays know about that reference. I'll have to get the book just to read that section! Gregory Yob was actually quite a mentor for me in my late teens -- we hung out together quite a lot and he actually rented a room from me for a while in San Diego.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: Hah, chapter 25 has a section called Hunt the Wumpus! Awesome
Yeah, it's a great chapter. The whole book is honestly filled with that kind of great stuff.
It's like sitting down with Martin and just getting to listen to him and his experiences but hearing how to apply solutions too.
Marc Clifton wrote: Gregory Yob was actually quite a mentor for me in my late teens
That's very cool! 
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Marc Clifton wrote: ...I wonder how many people nowadays know about that reference.
Probably about as many that know of Windows' Burgermaster memory segment.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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David Crow wrote: know of Windows' Burgermaster memory segment
That's a good one. I remember reading about that in a book when I was learning about Win 3.x API programming. Was the story in Petzold's book? I think so, but can't remember.
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Not in any of the versions of Petzold. Since his updated book was full of additional information and formatted differently, I bought that too.
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Not in any of the versions of Petzold. Since his updated book was full of additional information and formatted differently, I bought that too.
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I remember Gregory Yob.I recall him being mentioned in an article about cryogenics. Since we are several months apart in age and in the same occupation, I was curious why a computer programmer would believe that preserving one's brain in ice is viable. It appears he was a bit strange, so that would explain it.Nevertheless, great minds are often a bit wacky.
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I still have my copy of that book.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Sitting on my shelf. Still a great source of common sense coding.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I have Code Complete 2nd Edition. Can confirm it uses C++ mainly but does have some Java and VB examples. Still a good suggestion for an updated edition with C# or something
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Jon McKee wrote: Can confirm it uses C++ mainly but does have some Java and VB examples.
That's right the 2nd ed. does use those other languages as well. I couldn't quite remember.
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