Sweet mother of god is Accurev awful. 300k lines of code? Try it with millions, with hundreds of developers working on scores of projects. Continuous integration? Sure, that’s something that developers can approximate by doing regular merges in, say, perforce, git, mercurial, or any of the countless other tools that actually gets the work done, … Read more
Disclaimer: The source control system I understand best is SVN. So that colors my usage of terms such as repo, checkout, etc. Also, I use Accurev on a daily basis, but I tend not to venture far from the core concepts that I feel I have a firm grasp of. One sentence (with an asterisk): … Read more
To understand why Git does not offer some kind of what you are referring to as an “inheritance mechanism” (not involving a commit), you must first understand one of the core concepts of those SCMs (Git vs. ClearCase for instance) ClearCase uses a linear version storage: each version of an element (file or directory) is … Read more
There is a way to cleanup workspace in Jenkins. You can clean up the workspace before build or after build. First, install Workspace Cleanup Plugin. To clean up the workspace before build: Under Build Environment, check the box that says Delete workspace before build starts. To clean up the workspace after the build: Under the … Read more