Tools and Practice / Source Control

Overview

Source control has less to do with the VCS system you use, and more to do with the stages code goes through on the journey from inside a developer’s head, tested and merged into the main line, deployed to production, and thence in time to being identified as that accursed legacy system that is causing all the problems.

At I, most of my projects will use Git as their VCS, and usually with gitlab as the host for their repositories, but this is not a hard and fast rule (clients will often host their own repositories in their own system).

Contents

• Tools - A summary of tools I use for source code management
• Git Repos - How to set up and maintain your Git repos
• Git Workflow - How best to work with Git as a developer
• Master-to-Main - Rename default branch

External Resources

• Dangit, Git! - A plain English guide to solving common Git issues