How can one export a Firefox Addon's source code, including all prior versions?
For example the versions page for Lazarus Form Recovery shows back to v2.04 for downloading .xpi files, but if you follow on into view source the archive goes as far back as 0.9.0.
The intent is to revive a dormant extension on Github/Bitbucket/... and it would be good to have the history to work with and not just the latest snapshot. It would also be honourable to carry on the name of the original contributors (assuming something like "commit" messages can be retrieved too).
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I would like to do version control with my structured text project (I use infoteam openpcs) for industrial applications. The problem is that each time I modify an *.ST file, I get changes also in *.POE and *.bak corresponding files. Is there any nice way to do version control of this type of files?. For me, it is very annoying to follow version changes, because each time I modify onlye one *.ST file, I get the same change also in *.POE and *.bak. The thing is that I also would like to link this to redmine or TortoiseSVN and only see and/or recover the changes in the *.ST files. Is it possible?.
If you are not limited by which version control tool to use, you can opt for Git. It provides a way to ignore certain file extensions (to be more exact, ignore any files matching various patterns specified by the user)
This page has a nice explanation on this feature - https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/saving-changes/gitignore
As a developer changes code (provided he uses version control), s/he can compare new code to old to see what changes were made over two "points in time" (or versions).
What might be more convenient for some scenarios is an IDE add-in (extension, or whatchamacallit) that would record all changes in this manner:
11:39:42 Changed "Activity1" to "MainActivity"
11:42:27 Added a new layout named "Whatchamacallem_TheBand.axml"
(etc.)
Is there such a beast? If not, why not? It seems it could come in handy for many scenarios - helping you remember what you did on a certain day/edit session (perhaps to make meaningful/accurate checkin comments), in writing tutorials so that "minor" but necessary steps are not omitted, etc.
UPDATE
ISTM that even a subset of this would be a very handy "solution diary", in that it could contain such items as:
On 3/14/2014, installed "Microsoft Http Client Libraries" version [was.auch.immer]" via NuGet
On 3/26/2014, installed "Windows Mobile Services" version [sea.lo.que.sea]" via NuGet
Maybe such an auditing tool could then be queried by filters such as "NuGet" or so.
UPDATE 2
Drodio (Android Studio) does have a minimal implementation of this, via its View > Recent Changes window:
UPDATE 3
The more I use Droidio, the more I like it; from the editor, access the context menu and select Local History > Show History. Now this is more like it/what I'm talkin' about:
I know netbeans syncs the original files once I save, but if there is a file changed externally is there a way for netbeans to recognize this and either tell me to re-sync it or automatically resync it with the new changes?
Here's what makes this behavior possible:
NetBeans 6.9 contains a feature that automatically looks for external changes to keep informations about files up-to-date. We have some reports that it can slow down NetBeans mainly, when an open project has many folders. When NetBeans find out that files were externally changed, it re-scans the files to keep data up-to-date that are used with features like code completion, navigation etc. Unfortunately the notification and following re-scanning can take some time and during this time many mentioned features are waiting for the finishing of scanning. There is option Enable auto-scanning of sources that can switch off this behavior. The option you can find it in Options dialog, Miscellaneous category and Files tab.
The default behavior is that NetBeans also looks for external changes when the main window gets focus. This is can be during developing a web application very often when user switches between browser and IDE. The mentioned option also switch this off.
When you switch off option Enable auto-scanning of sources you can still keep the information up-to-date, just invoke Scan for External Changes action from Sources menu manually.
(Here's the original article by Petr Pisl)
I find it counterproductive to leave this setting on, as sometimes auto-loading external changes to a file opened in the UI without asking for permission first can ruin your day when you're forced to make small local changes that you don't want replicated in your repository. I'm sure other people can think of more reasons to advocate for "warn before loading external changes" behavior to be implemented in NB. That is one of the reasons why I like Eclipse better sometimes.
I have configured VB6 with VSS 2005, following functionality working fine :
Check In and Check Out of code
Get Latest Version
Showing error when code Check Out by another user.
Showing error if use try to edit code without Check In ( only when user takes latest version)
Difference I am finding in VB.Net and VB6 configuration with VSS are :
Code not getting Check In automatically when user try to edit code, without Check In Code.
Not allowing user to save changes and Check In code later after 1 or 2 days. User require Check In code before closing code.
Showing "Path/File access error:" for .vbp file.When user tries to save code on machine.
Allowing user to edit code without Check in when user opens the code first time.
I did all the settings mentioned in this link.
As MarkJ mentioned the vbp file is always saved when the application runs. You can cancel out of the dialog to run the project anyway but this is more hassle than just right clicking on the project root and checking out.
I am using Team Foundation Server with my VB6 projects and there is no auto check out in this either. I'm afraid you will have to live with it until you port the code the .NET
As I mentioned heredead link: WayBack version there is also a problem when you have some files or documents not in SourceSafe.
Specifically (as I still document here), when some of the files of a project are not associated with SourceSafe often no files have their SourceSafe status glyphs displayed.
The workaround I found was displaying the Add Files dialogue and then cancelling it. I offer my public domain add-in that automatically implements this workaround.
And BTW, make sure you install the latest VSS Service Pack.
I m new to use ankhSVN and having issues. I have created some new files which are not commited. It was required that i need to get latest version. I right clicked the folder and selected update. I didnt get the latest version and also my files were not present. It had a question mark icon towards the left.
Ideally i want to know what is the procedure to use ankhSVN.
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The 'folders' you see in Visual Studio are not normal folders/directories. They are just filters on your project. For some project types they map to actual folders (E.g. C#, VB and websites), but for other projects they don't (E.g. C, C++, Setup, Database, ...).
So actually you are just updating the selection of the filter/folder and everything below.
For most tasks you should always update on either the solution, the project level or a single file, as updating a subdirectory without the project referencing the files inside is an operation that can leave you with a broken project. (New files won't be included in your project and old files won't be removed).
AnkhSVN allows you to update the whole directory at once by checking the [X] Recursive checkbox at the bottom of the dialog, but this is currently not the default setting.