We recently added Git support to PrimalScript and, subsequently, to PowerShell Studio. You can read about it here. As promised in the previous post, I will tell you a little bit more about how this works, how you can customize it, and what we have planned for it in the future. The MS SCC API […]
Tag: Version Control
A tale of two crashes
One of our long time customers recently sent me an email with a desperate plea for help. The customer would like to remain anonymous, so we will just call him “Joe”. Joe asked if I would be so kind as to extract the scripts from all the packaged executables that he had created with PrimalScript […]
VersionRecall 2014: FAQ
Over the course of the weeks since the release of VersionRecall 2014 we have received a number of questions. Here is a list of the most common ones and the answers to them. Question: Why do you not just submit a file each time it is modified? Answer: While developing scripts, most people frequently […]
PrimalScript 2014: Introducing Restore Points
We have all done it. We started messing with code and changed it to the point where it just won’t work anymore. If you employ some kind of version control or backup you usually have some kind of previous version to save the day, but that really depends on how diligent you are with checking […]
PowerShell Studio 2012 with GIT, Subversion and Mercurial Oh, my!
Similar to PrimalScript 2012, we received requests to add support for GIT, Mercurial, and Subversion in PowerShell Studio 2012. The difficulty of supporting all these various source control solutions is that they all have different APIs and change over time. The varying nature of these tools could potentially make the integration outdated fairly quickly. One […]
Using GIT, Subversion and Mercurial with PrimalScript 2012
For quite some time we have been asked to add support for the aforementioned version control systems to PrimalScript. But every time we looked into it, the API changed or the preferred system du jour changed. We didn’t want to add support for too many API’s that get potentially outdated fast. But most importantly, many […]
Reminder: Backup survey
This is a reminder for our current survey about Backup and Version Control. Please click here to participate: 2010 Backup Survey Enter your email in the survey to win cool prizes. Your responses will help determine what features get added and what gets cut from PrimalScript 2011 and PrimalForms 2011, so don’t hesitate.
Version control for System Administrators (Part 1)
1. Setting up ChangeVue 2009 Software developers have been using Source Code Control Systems for quite some years now. Most people involved with any kind of electronic files or document have a kind of ad-hoc version control usually using some file naming scheme. Something like: InfrastructureOct2007.doc InfrastructureJan2008.doc InfrastructureMar2008.doc Many administrators though, have stayed away from […]
What is a Source Code Control System?
One of the tools SAPIEN will release in February 2009 is ChangeVue 2009, our very own Source Code Control System. Software developers are usually familiar with this type of application, but system and network administrator are not always aware of the benefits of this type of tool. In the following post I will attempt to […]
Announcing ChangeVue 2009
We are proud to announce another new product for the new 2009 tool lineup: ChangeVue 2009 Using source control is an indispensable safety net for any professional developer, regardless of programming language or file size. Not only does source control provide an inherent backup mechanism by storing versions of any file you add to a […]
