{"id":1066,"date":"2009-01-22T00:26:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T08:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sapien.com\/blog\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2009-01-22T11:19:32","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T19:19:32","slug":"version-control-for-system-administrators-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/22\/version-control-for-system-administrators-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Version control for System Administrators (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. Setting up ChangeVue 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Something like:<\/p>\n

InfrastructureOct2007.doc
\nInfrastructureJan2008.doc
\nInfrastructureMar2008.doc<\/p>\n

Many administrators though, have stayed away from the developer oriented source control software packages. A feeling of overkill and the tendency to have a complicated setup can keep you away even if you recognize a basic need for that type of thing. After all, who wants to create databases on servers, user-ids, projects, and manage all that just to keep a few scripts under control.<\/p>\n

ChangeVue 2009 makes this a little simpler and scales more easily from a single user to a team system.<\/p>\n

The startup wizard makes short work of setting things up initially:<\/p>\n

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– You specify where to store your files’ versions: A “repository”, preferably somewhere on a NAS or some other network location.<\/p>\n

– You should provide a friendly name, which prevents you from having to deal with the full path name to your repository all the time.<\/p>\n

– The simplified user management just uses the name you specify rather than requiring you to login into yet another user-id\/password protected system.<\/p>\n

– It can automatically make ChangeVue the default source code control provider for PrimalScript.<\/p>\n

That’s pretty simple so far. Now all you have left is to set up a ‘project’ for your files. A ‘project’ is basically a folder in your repository. It’s just not called “folder” to avoid confusion when you talk about the two items in one sentence.<\/p>\n

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If you have all your scripts in one folder, you can simply map that one folder to a project. If you have a complete folder structure, just as easy, simply check the appropriate box.<\/p>\n

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Now all your files are under version control. It is worth to note at this time that all these files are now read-only on your local hard disk. This state is usually used by IDEs and text editors to determine that some file might be under version control.<\/p>\n

Note that even binary files, like ZIP files, bitmaps etc. can be part of a version control repository. ChangeVue’s binary difference mechanism will make certain that large files are not replicated over and over again.<\/p>\n

That’s it for part one. If you don’t need any other tool, you can even start editing your scripts right within ChangeVue.<\/p>\n

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I’ll be back with part two soon, showing you how to set up PrimalScript in one simple step to seamlessly work together with ChangeVue 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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