Mercurial Phases: Using Draft, Secret and Public to Guard Your Pushes
Mercurial phases label each changeset as draft, secret or public to prevent accidental publication and support safe history rewriting in team workflows.
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mercurialArchitecture Note: TowerGit Interactive Rebase Feature
An architecture note describing TowerGit’s interactive rebase: requirements, minimal UI design, trust boundaries, pre‑start checks, failure modes, and factors that would push the design toward a server‑mediated model.
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gitTaming Complex Git History with Sourcetree's Visual Workflow
Stop guessing your Git history. Learn how to use Sourcetree's visual graph and hunk-based staging to maintain a clean, atomic commit history and automate Git Flow.
When Your Assets Can't Merge: Subversion's Lock-Modify-Unlock Model for Binary Files
Subversion's svn:needs-lock property flips binary files into a lock-modify-unlock workflow, making the checkout discipline self-enforcing for unmergeable assets like .psd, .blend, or .xlsx files.
Using TortoiseGit’s Interactive Rebase to Clean Up Commit History
Learn how to use TortoiseGit’s Interactive Rebase from the Windows Explorer context menu to squash or edit commits, with a step‑by‑step example and safety tips.
tortoisegitGit Worktrees: Parallel Development Without the Context Switch
Git worktrees let you check out multiple branches into separate directories sharing one .git folder. Run a long build in one worktree while fixing a bug in another—no stashing, no duplicate clones. Here's how to set them up, a worked example, and the trade-offs to watch for.
Version-Controlled Flows: Using Node-RED Projects with Git
Enable Node-RED Projects to put your flows under Git version control: setup in settings.js, creating and cloning projects, commit/push workflows, and recovery from bad deploys.
Managing Parallel Tasks with Git Worktree
Stop using git stash for urgent context switches. Learn how to use Git Worktree to maintain multiple simultaneous working directories linked to one repository.
Pinning External Code in Subversion with svn:externals and Peg Revisions
Subversion's svn:externals property embeds external repositories at specific revisions. Use peg revisions (URL@REV) to freeze externals at known-good states, repository-relative URLs (^/path) for mirror portability, and understand the commit, authentication, and performance implications.