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State of affairs (this is with TFS, Git is not used):
- All projects, regardless of how unrelated, are in a single SLN
- When releasing to production, changesets have to be cherry picked for "just the changes being released" for the different projects.
- After merge to prod, the SLN file has to be visually / manually compared and edited to remove projects that might have been added that shouldn't be going to prod.
- The branching policy stands as: "branches are too complicated"
- The check-in policy stands as: "to avoid tons of work for a release, do NOT check in frequently, so that there's ideally only one changeset for the last 3 months of work."
Umm. What's wrong with this picture? 
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Marc Clifton wrote: What's wrong with this picture?
TFS! You are using TFS!
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His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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We use TFS for a huge solution and it is fine if it is setup and used properly.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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TFS is not the problem. The same policies would still exist if using Github or another tool. The problem is how TFS is being used.
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All that crap and manual work and they say its the whole BRANCH thing is too complicated. 
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Well, branching on TFS does suck. That's probably GIT's primary advantage over TFS. (GIT's distributed nature is useful is a massive diverse project like Linux, but of really little use in most places)
Truth,
James
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1. Not good
2. Use labels
3. See 1
4. I've never used branches either, but I try to avoid worse things
5. See 2
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Marc Clifton wrote: Umm. What's wrong with this picture?
1. - makes the possibility of CI pretty much impossible.
2. - see 1.
3. - see 1.
4. - people need more training.
5. - irrelevance, the number of checkins has no bearing on the validity of trunk -> if your check in breaks trunk you fix it or revert out your changes.
Source control done properly is certainly not easy but what you have listed is just as complicated, if not more complicated, as doing source control properly.
In addition to 4. - trunk based development is a perfectly valid and at times necessary method of development if you want to be able to deploy at any time when the tests all show green. Branch based development is not necessarily complicated and has its own advantages such as no breaking trunk if you are deploying from trunk.
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modified 12-Jul-18 12:59pm.
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GuyThiebaut wrote: 1. - makes the possibility of CI pretty much impossible.
Precisely! If I mention CI around here, I get blank stares or "did you mean the TV show CSI?"
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There are people with intellects far superior to mine who struggle with implementing CI.
It's a long process to get there and I can only claim to understand some of the principles.
However, even if CI is not the end goal, having everything in one solution is really not a very good idea nowadays given all the tools(Nuget etc) and experience documented on how to reduce risk and do things 'properly'.
Your post also makes me grateful that I work somewhere that has fairly decent source control practises - that said it took me a good 6 months to really absorb how to do source control properly - using project branches, a trunk, release candidate branches etc.
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Umm. Everything?
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Let me guess: this is also the official backup system for the company?
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OriginalGriff wrote: this is also the official backup system for the company?
Actually no - that seems to be handled fairly well.
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Easier question : what's right about it?
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Sounds to me like this is the wrong company to be working for. I am sure they are not going to change their ways anytime soon.
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I could've launched into a long diatribe, but I'll summarize it much more succinctly:
The incompetence of the individual(s) in charge is harmful to everybody else.
There. Is there really much else to add?
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There's a word for that
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Marc Clifton wrote: a single SLN
Marc Clifton wrote: Umm. What's wrong with this picture?
Always use married SLNs they are more stable and reliable. 
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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No, they're easier to blackmail.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Umm. What's wrong with this picture?
That sounds more like a Jackson Pollock painting than a picture... 
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Bloody hell, I thought our source control was lousy, I'm going to have to apologise to the dev who manages it 
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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That doesn't sound like they have much 'control' over their source code 
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That you continue to be employed there?
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"We don't need no stinkin' Devops..."
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
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