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Project Version Maintainer Software

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:47 pm
by insider
Well every time I make a significant change/bug fix/ addition to my project I have a habit of writing a text file using notepad mentioning the changes I have done in brief.
And I make a copy of the project and name it 1.x as so on, so that I can revert back to the previous version if something doesn't work, well that's what we all do isn't it.
Every project I do has multiple copies sometimes just 7 sometimes up to 40.
On some days I make multiple copies per hour if I am onto fixing something very important and might forget to add what I have changed.
And its boring going through a text file every time.

So it there any recommended third party tool / software for maintaining entire project history.
I need to add time, date and of course version number of the project.

Does anyone know any alternatives to the boring notepad for maintaining project history. :)

Re: Project Version Maintainer Software

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 9:52 pm
by PhilipLB
Basically any Bugtracker supports Milestones/Versions. You define a Milestone (like "1.1") and then you can set this Milestone in a ticket. This way you assign tickets to Milestones and voilĂ , you get your changelog. :) Checkout Ogres Roadmap in Jira for an example: https://ogre3d.atlassian.net/browse/OGR ... dmap-panel

Re: Project Version Maintainer Software

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 10:06 pm
by scrawl
You are looking for a version control system - mercurial, git (I prefer the latter) :)

Re: Project Version Maintainer Software

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 7:11 am
by insider
Thank you that's what I needed :D