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Migrating from SVN to Git

Published on May 23, 2013

The Spanners demo project is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/hotblac/spanners. Feel free to fork!

I wanted to migrate the Spanners demo from SVN to Git, partly so I could take advantage of GitHub to host it (yes, I know I could host a SVN project on GitHub but where’s the fun in that?). I also wanted to start using a Distributed Source Control Management (DSCM) system and Git is certainly the most popular of these. Even though I’m (currently) the sole contributor to the Spanners demo project, it’s useful to understand how a DSCM system differs from a ‘traditional’ centralized server based SCM such as SVN and CVS.

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Maven release plugin

Published on December 13, 2011

Properly versioning and releasing code can be fiddly if it’s done properly. If you’re not cutting corners, the process involves several steps. If these steps are performed manually the process is error prone and time consuming. I’ve often found it’s easier just to cut a few corners. Why change the version in the Maven pom when you could perform all releases against a single SNAPSHOT version? Why tag the release build when you could probably work out the release version from a Subversion log? Why put release artifacts in a release repo when you can rebuild from a historic version?

I’m not going to argue that you shouldn’t cut corners when creating a release build (all the same, just don’t!). I will argue that the process need not be fiddly. So long as a Maven project is correctly set up, the whole thing can be done with a single command. Wire that single command up to Hudson, Jenkins, CruiseControl or whatever and you can create properly versioned release builds in a single click or (if you’re so inclined) as a scheduled task.

At the heart of this is the powerful – though slightly inflexible – maven release plugin.

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