Top "Dvcs" questions

DVCS stands for Distributed Version Control System.

Are there any good graphical Git and Hg/Mercurial clients on Mac OS X?

I'm searching for compelling Git and Mercurial clients on Mac OS X. The most clients I've found so far were …

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How can I back out a merge in Mercurial and later remerge with that branch?

I have two branches, default and branch1. By mistake one person in our team merged branch1 with default. The content …

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Moving master head to a branch

I have several feature branches and a master branch. Feature2 is done. Normally I would rebase (working with a remote …

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How do I clone a sub-folder of a repository in Mercurial?

I have a Mercurial repository containing a handful of related projects. I want to branch just one of these projects …

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Consequences of using graft in Mercurial

There've been several questions recently about skipping changes when maintaining release branches in Mercurial. For example: Mercurial: Branch specific changes …

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Named Branches vs Multiple Repositories

We're currently using subversion on a relatively large codebase. Each release gets its own branch, and fixes are performed against …

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Bitbucket: Update a fork to merge changes of master repo?

I am working with a bitbucket git repo I have read-only access to, so I created a fork to work …

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Is there an open source equivalent to piper, Google's version control tool?

Google stores all its codebase in a single repository called piper [1][2][3]. It has an approach that is very different than …

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Mercurial: Merging one file between branches in one repo

When I have two branches in Hg repo, how to merge only one file with another branch, without having all …

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Can I clone part of a Mercurial repository?

Is it possible to clone part of a Mercurial repository? Let's say the repository is quite large, or contains multiple …

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