always get Crashlytics is modified when doing git status, objective c, git - iphone

I am using Crashlytics framework for crash reporting. After running the project from xcode and doing git status, I always get the message like below
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: Crashlytics.framework/Versions/A/Crashlytics
modified: Crashlytics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Info.plist
modified: Crashlytics.framework/run
Please advice me on how to get rid of these modified files from Crashlytics
#Abizem : what I did for .gitignore is following
.DS_Store
#backups
*.swp
*~.nib
*~.xib
*~
*.zip
*.gz
build
*.[oa]
DerivedData
VERSION-FILE
Crashlytics.framework/
#XCode
*.pbxuser
*.mode1
*.mode1v3
*.mode2v3
*.perspective
*.perspectivev3
project.xcworkspace/
xcuserdata/
but it still does not work.

You have two choices:
Check the changes into your project, which will stop the cause of the error.
Add the Crashlytics.framework to your .gitignore file which will ignore any changes to the file.

The Crashlytics Mac app used to automatically update instances of its frameworks in your projects, which caused the original confusion. With the newer Fabric app, updates are controlled manually so you shouldn’t see unexpected changes in your working copy.
If you want to be able to able to return to the exact state of your application source at any time, you should add the framework files to your version control system and update them every time the framework updates.
Alternatively, ignore changes to the framework if you want to avoid adding possibly large files to your version control system or save yourself the time it takes to commit the changes — at the expense of having a complete source history. Disk space and network speeds are going up, while discarded history is lost forever. To read more, see the answers to Binaries in source control on Programmers Stack Exchange.
A third option that has some of the advantages of each choice is to use a separate repository for tracking changes to the Crashlytics/Fabric frameworks and add it as a submodule of your main repository. For example, see CrashlyticsFramework by Bogdan Poplauschi.

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What does the xcschememanagement.plist file do in XCode? And can I ignore it with git?

Due to the poor documentation of XCodes files that manage your project under the hood, I cannot understand the purpose of the xcschememanagement.plist file, which is causing me a lot of problems.
Can anyone explain this file's purpose, and how we should be treating it with git source control?
Here is the full path to the file PROJECT_ROOT/xcuserdata/alecmather.xcuserdatad/xcschemes/xcschememanagement.plist
My problem with git and this file:
Let's say I start on branch_1.
I make some commits to this branch.
Then I switch to branch_2.
I make some commits there, and decide to run my project.
After I'm done, I stop running my project and switch back to branch_1.
I run my project there, and close it.
I attempt to switch back to branch_2 but am stopped by git saying that I have uncommitted changes in the current directory. But I did nothing but run my project.
So I'm assuming that this file holds some things that can get changed around when building/running your project? But this gets really tedious when switching between branches all the time. Do I commit the changes to that file from this scenario? Can I safely just discard the changes?
Yes, you can safely ignore the whole xcuserdata folder. All premade .gitignore files I've seen so far for Xcode projects do so, including https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/Xcode.gitignore

Exclude File from Uncommitted Changes

I have a config.debug.json file that I update frequently based on which server I'm pointing to. Is there anyway to exclude this file from Uncommitted changes? In sourcetree and vs code it shows up as an uncommitted change, but I never want to commit the change.
Try adding config.debug.json to your .gitignore. This will exclude the file from source control, which should prevent it from showing up in the changes section for vscode and sourcetree
Update
If you've already added the file at some, you first need to untrack it by running:
git rm --cached config.debug.json
This will leave the file on your system but stop tracking it

Red exclamation in Eclipse after build - on classes dir

First, there are no problems with my build path, and there's no problem in the "problems" window regarding this error. What happens is:
I check a project out of SVN
I then build that project
SVN "version" and link gets removed from classes and build directories (and red ! appears)
I can no longer commit project as a whole, as I get this error:
svn: Commit failed (details follow):
svn: Working copy 'C:\Users\<me>\Documents\eclipseSDK\<project>\classes' is missing or not locked
It's NOT missing, it just was "refreshed" during build
I've also tried to delete the dir on the SVN side, but the red arrows still appear and committing throws an error - even though those dirs are no longer part of the checked resources.
Also, basically, any "Team" menu option will no longer work on those two dirs, if I try to Team>Add to Version Control, nothing shows up in the Resources window.
I don't even know if I care about the red exclamation as much as just getting those two dirs out of the SVN process. Like I said, I've deleted on the SVN side even, so they are no longer there.
Are your compiled classes file part of your Subversion repository? If so, GET RID OF THEM FROM SUBVERSION!.
Sorry about the screaming, but files that can be built (like classes and jar files) should not be stored in version control. It just doesn't make sense.
Source control allows you to see the history of changes. You can see who made what changes in the source, but you can't do that in class files or jars. Source control allows you to branch and merge changes. You can't do that with class files. And, they go stale very quickly. No one cares about class files that were built last month.
The biggest issue is sheer size. Binary files don't diff well (and many version control systems don't even try). Let's say you build 15 megabytes worth of class files each time you do a build. That's probably at least 12 megabytes added to your repository each and every time. With in a year, you could be adding, 1 gigabyte to your repository. You can easily end up with the vast majority (and I mean in the 90% range of your source repository being nothing more than compiled code. Compiled code that no one cares about. Compiled code that can't help you understand your development history. Compiled code that clogs up your repository.
Go to your classes directory, and do an revert from the Team menu on that directory. You'll lose all of your changes, but so what? They shouldn't be there. This will set things up, so you can at least commit your changes.
Then, delete that classes directory and all of its contents from Subversion and commit. Eclipse will create the directory when it does a build, and you can make the directory in Ant's build file before you compile the code. You should then set an svn:ignore property on the directory parent to prevent people from checking in the classes directory.
If you need to store jar files for other projects to use, use a release repository. In fact, use a Maven repository like Artifactory or Nexus. You don't have to use Maven. Ant can use Ivy to fetch the files from a Maven repository, or you can simply use URLs to download the files as needed via wget or the <get/> task in Ant.
OK, I deleted [build & classes] from local, and deleted from SVN. Made a minor edit to a file, just to be able to run Commit - which worked fine.
That's good.
Both local & SVN were in sync. build & classes are (and were) part of ANT build file, so ran build again. build & classes reappeared (with ? this time), and added to svn:ignore.
Any file that's not in the repository will show up with a question mark. Those question marks will disappear if you add the svn:ignore property to the parent directory with classes, sync, and build in it.
Made another file change, but now I cannot commit the entire project, as I'm getting more/different errors now (e.g. "out of date").
The out of date means that someone somewhere modified a file that was in the repository and committed it. It's very likely that the change is one of the *.class files that you removed. You will have to do an update before a commit. When you do the update, you will likely see a lot of conflicts where a class file was changed, but you had removed it. Resolve these changes, update, and commit again.
By the way, I have a pre-commit hook that is useful in this situation. First, it can prevent people from adding that classes directory to the repository (and any files under it). Second it can make sure that the svn:ignore is setup correctly.

cvs: updates fail to merge

I've just discovered, a surprising for me behavior of cvs.
I change file1 localy
During this time people change other unrelated parts of the same file, and commit to the repository
I update my local copy from repository
At this point I expect my local copy of file1 to contain all changes made by others to this file, unless the update above reported a conflict. However, when I do now diff with head, I discover lot's of differences coming from changes made by others in parts of the file that I did not touch at all.
Any ideas? Is this just the limited abilities of cvs to merge? Any wrong setting? Something in my workflow?
CVS has very limited merge facilities. Switch to a modern system such as Git (perhaps via git-cvsimport if the repo maintainer is uncooperative) if you want a better merge experience. See also Best practices for using git with CVS
The final solution is :
1. Save your local code to another place manually
2. Revert the files which may has conflict to the HEAD (most latest) version on CVS server.
3. Add back your change to the Reverted file.
The concept for above solution is to CLEAR UP all the possible issue by REVERT and get a 100% clean version from repository then add back our changes.
It can resolve below issues which caused by code out of date / code base messed up.
CVS commit had a conflict and has not been modified
CVS update failed
CVS not sync

VCS: push only source code directory

I work on Java project. How I can push only source directory without temporary files, build files and project files? I use Mercurial.
Mercurial will only push history, which means that it is only things that you have asked it to track (with hg add) and later committed (with hg commit) that will be pushed.
So like Jim says, you should setup .hgignore file. Do this before adding files to your project and double-check that hg status only lists files you want to add. Then run hg add to add them all.
If you've already put the temporary files and build artifacts under version control, then you can either use hg forget to stop tracking them. You'll still carry them around in the history, so if we've talking about tens of megabytes, then you probably want to re-create the repository.
Create an .hgignore file.