Subversion

Yesterday I wrote about Continuous code quality measurement with NDepend and TeamCity [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/12/continuous-code-quality-measurement.html] where I looked at nightly builds that assessed code quality using the very excellent NDepend. These reports are great and it’s easy to configure but you need to make both a dollar investment in the software and an education investment to really understand the metrics and how they relate to code quality. What’s nice about StatSVN [http:...

I’m a big fan of Red Gate’s SQL Source Control [http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Source_Control/index.htm], I really am. I raved about it [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/07/rocking-your-sql-source-control-world.html] earlier in the year and I still think it’s the best solution going for getting your databases under source control with Subversion. However, I’ve hit a glitch which unless I’m wrong, appears to be a bit of a design flaw; versioning changes in case. Let’s say I have a table, crea...

<< Part 4: Continuous builds with TeamCity [https://www.troyhunt.com/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity_25/] In the first four parts of this series we got config transforms playing nice, command line builds and packaging ticking along, Web Deploy happily receiving our application and TeamCity continuously building the entire solution on every commit. The last thing to do is to harmonise everything so that we can actually automate the deployment. Breaking down the build and deploy processes First...

<< Part 3: Publishing with Web Deploy [https://www.troyhunt.com/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity_24] Part 5: Web Deploy with TeamCity >> [https://www.troyhunt.com/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity_26/] Over the last three posts in this series, we got to the point where all the Microsoft bits are working really nicely together. Config transforms, packaging and Web Deploy are great stable mates in the world of web application deployment. The bit that’s missing though is automation. Actually there a...

<< Part 2: MSBuild and deployable packages [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity_11.html] Part 4: Continuous builds with TeamCity >> [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity_25.html] In the first two parts of this series we got config transforms working and the web app successfully bundled into a nice self-contained deployable package. Next up: get the thing to publish. For the most part, the vast majority of web app deployment has historica...

<< Part 1: Config transforms [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity.html] Part 3: Publishing with Web Deploy >> [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity_24.html] In the first part of the series we looked at config transforms and how we’ve moved on from the bad old days of manual Web.config configuration at release time. Now let’s take a look at how we can incorporate this into a nice clean deployable package with the rest of the application....

Part 2: MSBuild and deployable packages >> [https://www.troyhunt.com/2010/11/you-deploying-it-wrong-teamcity_11.html] If you publish a web application using CTRL-C and CTRL-V, you’re deploying it wrong. If you manually run an Xcopy command, you’re deploying it wrong. If you use an FTP client to move your files to a remote server, you’re deploying it wrong. If not everyone is following exactly the same release process, you’re deploying it wrong. If publishing involves any manual handling of...

I knew it was going to be good before even seeing it. After all, SQL Source Control [http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql_source_control/index.htm] is from the guys who brought us SQL Compare [http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Compare/index.htm] and Data compare [http://www.red-gate.com/products/SQL_Data_Compare/index.htm], two of my all-time favourite tools in the “stuff that would be a real pain to do without” category. They’re tools I tend to berate developers for not having and have regul...

I hit a couple of little hurdles with Subversion this week which I thought I’d share simply because I couldn’t find much public information about it and it was only through trial and error it got resolved. The context was I was adding an externals [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch07s03.html] to a project from another repository and there were two little barriers that threw a spanner into the works. For the sake of simplicity, here’s a recreation of the scenario: The first problem is t...

A while back I wrote about Creating your own custom Subversion management layer [https://www.troyhunt.com/2009/10/creating-your-own-custom-subversion.html] which involved rolling your own UI in .NET to perform common management tasks in SVN such as provisioning a repository or managing permissions. This is a great way of quickly and easily giving users a self-service mechanism for managing their own repositories in a controlled, secure fashion. Continuing the theme of customising SVN to do yo...