Version Control Recommendation

Is there a suggested product to us for Siebel version control. I know that Siebel will integrate with any product that supports command line get/put, but would like to know what is most widely used in the industry. I have CVS, PVCS, and GIT available, but want to go with the best option. Thanks.

I believe it will depend on your requirements. Check Doc ID 816343.1 on support.oracle.com to find a list of options. You may also consider Microsoft Source Safe as well.
Thanks,
Wilson

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Version Control Software Recommendations

Can anyone recommend a reliable 3rd party Version Control System to look after our Forms, Packages, Procedures, SQL Scripts etc.
Without bashing Oracle's SCM too much we are finding it a little restrictive and there is very little information on how to get the best out of it.
Merging and Version comparison isn't a must (one of SCM's better qualities) but it should integrate with a 9i DB for storing of the objects as BLOB's etc.

Hi,
Take a look at the Quest product called STAT.

Application size in terms of pages and performance and Version Control

Currently I'm looking into the best way to version control our APEX applications. From other threads, it seems it's an area that leaves much to be desired. We are on the verge distributing a large APEX project commercially but I cannot find a suitable versioning method to support bug fixes and new development happening at the same time to the same set of applications. I just hope everyone out there realises versioning is a vital area of the development process and VOTES for it in the V3 poll.
Anyway, enough of the my whinging. I did have a brain wave (quite rare !). What would the drawback be to have only 1 or 2 pages per application. This would allow a developer to always import the application at the start of work (ie from versioning software such as VSS or PVCS) and then export it at the end back into say PVCS. The application has everything self contained and correct versions etc.
This would allow more developers to work on different areas at the same time as opposed to having many pages in the one application where developers could step on each others toes etc. I've considered importing/exporting pages but the fact you cannot lock shared objects means there is a possibility that if many developers are working on the same application someone will change something that affects pages other than their own. It would also be a nightmare to tie up different versions of of pages, shared objects, applications etc. Would there a performance problem with this method ? Incidentally, why can't TABS be shared/subscribed across applications. It means they have to be created separately in each application whereas things like Nav Bars and Templates can be shared across applications.
Currently, my thoughts are that: bug fixing for a production release has to be in a separate stream (apex installation) from say new development work for the same set of applications BUT what this means is that the bug fixes have also to be manually applied in the new development stream - which is a considerable overhead (ie twice the work).
Thanks for hearing me out - assuming you survived to the end !
Any encouraging comments would be appreciated !

Wim,
I don't entirely understand the behavior. There should be little/no difference between the two cases. I'm assuming you have no indexes, which isn't recommended for such large containers anyway. Can you make your document set available to me so I can see if I can reproduce the behavior and look at it more closely? A single container, or dbxml_dump of a container is sufficient (both compress well).
Contact me directly at george dot feinberg at you know where.
George

Can we use RoboHelp with Eclipse as version control?

Im am using RoboHelp 7 in the Tech Comm Suite in a Windows XP environment.
I see a lot of information on using RoboSource as versionn control, but I'm not seeing a lot of information on other third-pary version control software. I did see one posting that suggested that if you are planning to use third-party software, you should uninstall RoboSource first. I can't seem to figure out the following:
How do you determine if your version control (Eclipse) supports Microsoft SCC API?
How do you get RH to recognize Eclipse? Even though I uninstalled RoboSource Control 3, it still shows up in the Select Version Control Provider
Are there step-by-step instructions anywhere that show how to get RoboHelp to recognize third-party software?
As always, thanks for your assistance.

Colum,
Thanks for recommending that I visit Peter's web site. It has a great page on Eclipse. Wish I had read it before I was shoved kicking and screaming into using it. However, it did stop short of providing me with information to troubleshoot the problems I'm having with Eclipse and RH 7. I sent him an e-mail from the site and hope that he will be able to answer it.

OpenScript: Which files to put under Version Control?

Hi,
According to JB's description of [how to enable Subversion|https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=10677356] for OpenScript, I have now an active version control.
The next question is now: which files I should put under version control? Obviously, the script.java is a good decision, but there are many more, such as java, properties, but also specific folders like "recorded data" and "results" folder.
Which once I should put under version control, any recommendation?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Volker

Thanks for your replies,
it's nice to know that I was going the right way.. :)
But how do you handle these little bugs, that I mentioned in my first message? Do you check-out all files in the project before work? Or they are TeamSystem - specific?
Best wishes, Serg.

Version control tool for Mac OS X?

Hi all
If using labview on Mac OS X,
do you have some version control tools to recommend?
Thanks a lot

As far as i know, LV for Mac does not integrate with source code control provider. LV for Windows has two requirements for this:
a) Professional Development Environment
b) A source code control provider compatible to the Microsoft Source Interface
There is still always (Mac, Linux and Windows alike) the possibility to control source files using the SCC providers client software.
Many open source project SCCs like CVS or Git integrate, at least in Windows, in the File Explorer.
I recommend you to research possible solutions like this for Mac.
The next question is if you want to use a distributed SCC or a local one. Depending on this, you will have to setup a network server with compatible provider (e.g. RhodeCode).
LV provides both a Diff and Merge tool as EXE (Professional). I am not sure if this is also true for the Mac version, so look for "LVCompare" and "LVMerge".
hope this helps,
Norbert
CEO: What exactly is stopping us from doing this?
Expert: Geometry
Marketing Manager: Just ignore it.

Cp5 Project version control

Hi all
Can anyone recommend best practice for version control in Cp5? In other documentation I'm in the habit of saving the version number in the file name, but with Captivate, if there are links to projects, changing file names with every edit will cause problems.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Regards
Amanda

I don't know of a way to do this so that you can see the version information without opening the Captivate file. My way to include version information within the .cptx file is to put the version number into a caption on the title slide of the presentation. If the version number is only relevant to the developer(s), make the caption invisible, but if you want users to be able to see it in the published presentation, leave it visible and format it appropriately (e.g., a transparent caption with say 8 point font, at the very bottom of the slide).

Version Control System?

Is there an option for integrated version control?
Specifically, is there a recommended plug-in available that
integrates with Visual Source Safe (2005)? I'm using the dedicated
Eclipse IDE for Flex 2 (ie... I'm not running Eclipse with the Flex
2 plugin)
I'm using Visual Studio 2005 and web services to integrate
with Flex 2. I'm having a wonderful experience so far....kudos to
your product team (I seriously think Microsoft delayed their
expressions' tools after trying this out.) I hope you consider
creating a Visual Studio plugin for Flex.
Thanks,
Daniel

There are options for source control plugins for Eclipse
(Flex Builder 2), but you'd have to go to the eclipse site to see
what those options are.
Here's the link to our bug and enhancement request form:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform&product=20&6213=35
Please give as much detail as you can regarding your desire
for a Visual Studio edition of Flex. Can't hurt to ask.

Version control bug

JDev Team,
a) The candidates tab of pending changes window lists the "JDeveloper project" files although I have "**/*.jpr" added to global ignore list.
b) Incoming tab of pending changes window does not bring in changes checked into version control repository. I checked in a file using the previous version of JDeveloper which is not recognized by the incoming tab.
I am using subversion for my version control.
Thanks
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balar1

Hello
The global ignore list is used by many components within JDeveloper. The Navigator and Pending changes windows are included in that list. Any file pattern that is defined in the global ignore list will get applied to the navigator and pending changes window. The project (jpr) file is very important to the navigator so you should not define a pattern that would make the project file to be removed from the navigator. I believe that defining this pattern (**/*.jpr) will be excluded from the list. Oracle recommends that project files are version controlled. Is there a specific reason why you don't want to version control them?
The Incoming changes window lists files that have a later revision number in the subversion repository from the copy you have in your working copy (file on disk). If you checked in a file and the revision in the repository is the same as the revision in your working copy it will not be listed in the incoming changes window. If the revision in the repository is later then it may not be shown in the incoming changes window, because the window has not be refreshed. The window is automatically refreshed on a timer (15 min) or you can manually refresh it
Regards
Dave

What version control system you use?

We are 20 developer and we use bitkeeper as a version control system.
But we have 4 envirronnement.
dev/test/pre-prod/prod.
Sometimes, 2-3 projects are affecting the same packages.
And different packages version is all over the place since we have 4 envirronnements.
What version control system you use for packages?
Would be cool to have a version control system intergrated to our tools, like toad, pl/sql dev or sql developer, is there one for those tools?
Is the tool you using it doing all you want it to do?
Have any link for me to check out?

Hi,
I recommend SourceAnywhere Standalone to you. It is an SQL-based source control application that provides all of the key features of VSS, plus much more. It is well integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 6/2003/2005/2008, Dreamweaver and Eclipse. Here is the home page of SourceAnywhere Standalone:
http://www.dynamsoft.com/Products/SAWstandalone_Overview.aspx
The Hosted edition, SourceAnywhere Hosted that is delivered as a SaaS application is also available.
http://www.dynamsoft.com/Products/SAWhosted_Overview.aspx
You can take a look.
Thanks,
Catherine Sea
www.dynamsoft.com
the leading developer of version control and issue tracking software
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Putting ~ into a version control system

Hey folks!
I'm curious as to how one could put ones home directory into version control, to quote Codemac;
codemac wrote:I keep my ~ in mercurial, so all files are checked in and versioned. [...] I highly suggest you put your $HOME into version control. It's real fun to see what your home directory looked like 3 years ago
I once used Subversion under Mac OS X to download a random project just for kicks, but had no idea what it was all about really. I understand that a version control system assists (manually or automatically?) in labeling files/data/"units" with version numbers, and storing the data as well? I've also seen that a number of users here use Git, another version control system, to label and share their various configuration files. Where is the data stored? On a server belonging to someone else or on ones own computer?
I found a Wikipedia article on the topic, although Subversion isn't named there, so I may be wrong on that one.
Is there a CVS that is small in size and amount of features and easy to get the grasp of?
Thanks in advance.

I'm having my ~ under version control now for a while (I am using git - the decision to do so was mainly motivated by my desire to learn git). However, I don't track every file in my ~. Just the configuration files (.bashrc, .bash_logout, .zshrc, .awesomerc, vim ... etc. etc.) and some docs (though I keep them in a different private repository). I'd recommend that if you plan to put your ~ under a VCS that you should think about what you plan to track and what not first. It certainly means some additional work, because you have to remember to commit changes back into your repository every time you change a tracked file. Of course you can perform a commit on every logout, but if you want to revert/restore a single file, it's better to track changes in files individually. As I see it, the main idea of keeping your ~ in a VCS system is to have a backup from where you can restore a single file to every point in time you want, or to revert uncommited changes which broke sth. in an instant. So, IMHO it doesn't make that much sense to have the repository on your laptop only, but also to have a remote repository (in case your HD dies). For me, it's also a nice way to keep my home directory in sync over multiple machines.
As for the decision on which particular VCS to use. I first tried to do that a year ago using svn, and it didn't work out that well - for some reason I don't like svn - but that doesn't mean that svn is bad - it could be right for you . Darcs is an easy to learn VCS but it lacks some features like branches and the like (which you may not need in this szenario anyway). I don't know much about Bazaar or Mercurial, because I've never used them, however from what I've read, these two are very popular choices nowadays (maybe someone with some experience with those can shed some more light ). Also, you have to chose the VCS according to what you like to track, because they differ in performance and the extra storage they need to keep track of the changes (I read a good article which compared all named VCSs regarding repository/metadata size in differrent szenarios, small files only, big files only etc. etc. - but unfortunately I can't find it atm).

RoboHelp6 and Version Control on TFS - How to add, delete or rename folders

When under Version Control what is the proper method of renaming a file or folder? What is the proper method of deleting or adding a folder under Version Control?
Bob (No relation to John)

With RSC, I'd recommend performing these procedures from RH. I don't know if you get that same tight coupling with TFS, though.
G

Version controlling tool

Brian,
We are going to use Oracle 9i database & 9i AS & JDeveloper 10g as tool for our web development. We have been using SourceSafe as version controlling tool successfully, but could not decide what we should adopt for the integration.
I do know that Oracle is not planning further development for Oracle SCM and as such recommends all new development with JDeveloper makes use of open source tools such as CVS. JDeveloper offers different choices for your configuration and team development environment. You can continue to use Oracle SCM with the JDeveloper extension or you can use open source tools such as CVS.
My question is
You said that you can confirm that SourceSafe will definitely be supported in the next release. (Apr 19, 2004 9:31 AM Subversion Source Control). Has it been released?
If not, what is your advise on tool to use for our development team?
Thanks in advance,
YingShi

Hello Moshi,
Personally I never understood how the integrated version control system of
CVI works, but SVN (and TortoiseSVN) works fine with CVI projects.
UIR files are treated as binary, as they should be, and that's about all.
You could put the .tui file under version control instead, but I don't think
it's worth the bother.
Guillaume Dargaud
http://www.gdargaud.net/

Version control J2EE applications

Hello,
This is a fairly general question regarding version control. I want to bundle a J2EE application as an EAR file and deploy it to a number of different application servers. On every server where the EAR file is deployed, I would like to keep a history of what version of the J2EE application was installed, and when.
For example, say I have 3 servers (S1, S2, and S3), and want to deploy myApp.ear to all 3. Something's gone wrong (the application doesn't deploy to S2), and we're not aware of any problems until users start complaining. How can I check which version of my J2EE application has been successfully deployed on each server at a glance?
Are there any logs kept regarding J2EE deployment histories in the Enterprise Manager? How are these logs maintained? Are they self maintianing?
We currently have a custom made installation system for non J2EE apps that adds an entry to a table on one of our databases that records the username, date, time and version of a particular application when it is installed. We can't use this custom installation system when we bundle our applications as EARs.
Basically, how have you guys (other professionals) managed software releases with EARs? Can you recommend any methods, articles, or utilities? Does 10g Application Server provide any means of managing releases?
Thanks for your input!

Hello,
You bring up an interesting problem. At the moment 10.1.2 does not have anyway to manage releases, however there is a simple way out of this.
When creating the ear file (i.e. pre-deploy), you can add a versions.txt to your ear file which will have the version number of the application. In regards to the time-stamp, the application server will create a directory (under applications and application-deployments) for the respective deployment. In conjunction with the version.txt and the timestamp of your files on the OS, you could get a pretty good feel of releases.
If you implement your own logging into a file system (which means writing more code), you could do this as well.
You could also write a servlet that starts-up and writes this data to the DB, however please note that this write will happen every time you start the OC4J instance, so this might not be a good solution.
Hope this helps.
Deepak

Version control for universes and reports

Post Author: Steven
CA Forum: Deployment
Hi All,
We're running BO Enterprise XI R2 and I'm looking for ideas which will allow me to version control updates to my universes and webi reports. We've got a large development team and we've been caught out a few times with overwriting each others updates.
Is there a way of doing this with XI R2 or are there any integrated 3rd-party software tools which provide this functionality (that you'd recommend)?
Thanks in advance,
Steven

Satya,, this can done easly throw some a third party product i used before, only with one single click
drop me an Email and i will discuss this with you.
good Luck
Amr

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