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We want a GitHub workflow that syncs EF migrations across all branches and automates ClickOnce desktop app deployments. The key requirements of this question are highlighted in bold at the bottom. ...
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We want CI/CD to inject the production connection string into a .NET Framework app.config during deployment. In source control, we only want test/staging DB connection strings. Developers should ...
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I am doing something I haven't done prior, which is that I built a library (that is still in progress as it is somewhat ambitious), and now I am developing an application on top of the "alpha&...
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I may be misunderstanding the GPLv2 license of Git itself, but I thought that "distribution" of a derived work requires the source to be released. According this post, GitHub is running a ...
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As a manager of a growing software team, I aim to monitor our GitHub repository activity to improve team productivity and identify any development bottlenecks. My goals include: Insights about the ...
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I'm developing a personal project that wasn't originally intended to be public (just for me, testing, fun, learning, etc.) This project has grown a bit and become serious enough that I now want to ...
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On GitHub, when an issue in small project calimero mentions an issue in big project godzilla, a backlink message appears on the issue in godzilla. For example, suppose a hard-to-fix bug in godzilla ...
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I'm working in a codebase at work that requires that anyone who wants to merge a PR rebase against the last master prior to merging the pull request. To further complicate things, CI (which takes ...
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I’m looking for some advice on best practices for Visual Studio workflows. I maintain several C# libraries which I use in various projects I develop. I also make them available publicly, as packages ...
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I have a small open source package and I'm trying to automate parts of the release life cycle. I am very confused about how to automate version bumps. Here's the relevant information about my version ...
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In our team we have up to 50 repos, of which about 15 are worked with regularly. The others are rarely changed, but it happens that we bring in 1-3 additional repos per release and work with them. We ...
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I'm trying to understand the best practices of Github Actions when splitting a workflow into multiple jobs. First of all, is it generally a good idea to split a workflow if the steps are logically ...
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I have a set of complex data, which I use on various subdomains of my project. Data are static most of the time, it changes few times per year. Currently, it's hardcoded in every project which needs ...
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Github Copilot got update yesterday (2023 St. Valentine) https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-now-has-a-better-ai-model-and-new-capabilities/ but still no information for its use in the ...
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I'm pretty new to Github and I have one question I couldn't really find a clear answer for it. Let's say I have a project called "Practice". In this project I would like to create different ...
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I work with other Software Engineers on a web app product. Also, the source code is hosted on GitHub. There is a behavior pattern that I do not understand. Some co-workers push branches (adding ...
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I work with other Software Engineers on a web app product. Also, the source code is hosted on GitHub. Recently, there was an introduction of a Continuous Integration procedure enabled by a script ...
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As shown in the following image, I have two different branches with their corresponding PRs (PR1 and PR2). The top arrow is the develop branch. PR2 is build on top of PR1. PR1 is build on top of ...
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What is the best practice, for creating a template repository, and then creating n projects based on that template? With "template" I mean: Let's say the template site is x. So x is a site ...
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CONTEXT My project is about implementing the "conventional method for house-energy-efficiency assessment" in France (120 pages). I want to provide a strict yet easy to use API to this method....
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I own a laptop and a desktop. The desktop better for training neural networks, but I don't have physical access to it. The laptop is better for day-to-day work on the neural networks. Right now, my ...
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Context: I am working on a project in which people use tags on commits yet in branches waiting on the Pull Requests queue of GitHub. This means they are non-merged to the main branch yet. The problem ...
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Two developers (front-end and back-end) are working on one User Story, while the front-end is dependent on the work of the back-end. What is the best way to handle this dependency regarding the ...
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I currently have a CI workflow for tests that use data present in my repository. However, since this data is very large, I would like to move it to another remote repo and somehow give my CI tests ...
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My friend is building a small open-source project with a few convenience functions. He'd like to release both JS, PHP and Python versions of the package to npm, packagist and pypi. The main part of ...
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When doing PR reviews, should the reviewer be checking that the code is correct (e.g. the logic is correct, etc.) or should the only focus be higher level concepts (e.g. architectural/functional/etc.)?...
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I am making a JS library that creates graphs and charts using canvas. I have hosted it on GitHub as a public repository. So after looking at some other related questions, I have figured out two ...
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I know this question might sound stupid to many, but - in terms of rigorous IEEE definitions - can we say that GitHub allows some kind of Software Life Cycle or some management paradigm in particular? ...
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I have some .env files for my backend application and the usual recommendation is to put all .env files in gitignore to not share it in the repo and use something like Github Secrets to store the .env ...
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I have some issues selecting an appropriate naming scheme for GitHub repositories that belong to the same project. The main package repo relies on additional repos to generate documentation or run ...
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My customer decided to have an automatic nightly build based on develop branch. We usually make a feature branch (and if it is necessary we provide a release compiled manually on that branch) and when ...
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Challenge: I am implementing a microservice/app/applet. Several features will be delivered As things develop later features rely/depend on earlier Pull-Requests (PR) Developer resoruces are finite, ...
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In the past I've mainly worked with monorepos, specifically a Vue.js app that was served by a rails backend. Setting up E2E/integration tests in the CI was simple, because all the required parts were ...
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We have a handful of AWS EC2s set up for testing ongoing feature developments. I'm wondering if anyone knows an easy, automated way to keep track of which git branch we're testing on each EC2. Maybe ...
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Basically, here's the problem. I work remotely for a company, and I need to have a local copy of the production database to play around with it and test my work on it before pushing the code. The prod ...
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I'm the only software engineer for a small company and I want to make my deployment process more robust because I can't work away from my dedicated workstation with my current process. I only make ...
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We are using git flow as a branching model, and we have a feature ticket that conceptually is a pretty small feature in the software management tool, in this case Jira. The thing is that the code on ...
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I'm starting to define how issues should be handled in GitLab. Most specifically whether the author should be editing the original issue to keep it up to date or use only comments. Let's say that you ...
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I am setting up a Github repository for a project that will have multiple Microservices. I have created a sub-directory for each microservice under One Repository. ProjectRepository \Services ...
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I will have to create a second app based on the first app. The second app shares 98% of the code (Some of the UI is different). I am wondering how to set up the second app without creating a merging ...
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The scenario is the following: For a project, such as Spring Security available on github, the following is accomplished: forked and cloned git remote add upstream URL-Remote-Repository git fetch ...
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I am working on a feature with a system that I am unfamiliar with. The feature is not ready, but I want to show the code to my team (who is familiar with the system) so they can give me early ...
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This may be a basic question, but I'm having some difficulty finding an answer online. My project is a MERN application that draws from an existing open-source API. This API utilizes a database that I'...
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I am not sure if what I'm asking is even possible (or desirable, for that matter), but we were wondering what would be the best way to handle SQL changes to a Database schema, when this schema is ...
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I am trying to start using GitHub flow in my project. I like that it is simple and, more importantly, it encourages continuous delivery. However, there is one thing about this flow that I cannot ...
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wanted to know if this is possible. Consider we have Branch A that is in a PR waiting to be merged. On a local branch, I pull the changes made in branch A and now they exist in my branch B. I ...
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I am new to the world of open source and just set up my Github account. I was wondering if there any naming conventions/styling guides to follow when naming things such a repositories. For example, in ...
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While going through the README file of a GitHub repository I am not a contributor of, I noticed a few minor typos and wondered if I should submit a pull request to correct them or if reviewing the ...
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My company has about 200 repos for microservices and libraries that we share. It's largely been great, but it's hard to keep DRY at the organizational level. We'll often have a large amount of package....
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I have an 8 pointer Story. Let’s call it for example XX1234 I have created 4 subtasks based on the list of actions to follow to complete the whole story implementation: 1. XX1235 2. XX1236 3. ...
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