[dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

[Gustav Brock]

Hi John

OK. Yes, VS2013 does support GitHub.

Let us know about your findings with Bonobo Git Server.

/gustav

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Fra: dba-VS <dba-vs-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com>
Sendt: 14. november 2015 19:20
Til: Access Developers discussion and problem solving; dba-vs at databaseadvisors.com
Emne: Re: [dba-VS] [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control

 >First question: Why not VS2015?

Mostly just that I have 2013 installed from awhile ago.  From my
reading, the 2013 version now supports github natively.

I do not want to put this specific project up into a public place
because it is company business.

I am going to try this:

https://bonobogitserver.com/install/

On 11/14/2015 1:07 PM, Gustav Brock wrote:
> Hi John
>
> First question: Why not VS2015?
>
> You may have your reasons for choosing VS2013, but I believe the GitHub support (the add-in) is better in VS2015. That said, it works, but I think the user interface and way to operate is primitive and clumsy - but it works when you have found out ... it's not difficult but not very logical.
>
> Second: I just use a shared network folder for my Git repositories. Then, when I tell so from VS, the current project is synced to GitHub (I only use the public site).
>
> GitHub is a Linux thing, so it shouldn't be very offending to you ... but as you seem to be in a hurry, I binged for alternatives (because also I actually would like to have my own server as the public server is, eh, just that: Public) and found GitStack targeted at lazy people like me having other things to do:
>
>       http://gitstack.com/
>
> They sport a "Basic" full-featured community version limited to two users, but wouldn't that fit your setup?
>
> I'll give it a look in the near future.
>
> /gustav
>
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> Fra: AccessD <accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com> på vegne af John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> Sendt: 14. november 2015 18:38
> Til: dba-vb at databaseadvisors.com; Access Developers discussion and problem solving; jwcolby at gmail.com
> Emne: [AccessD] Visual Studio and source control
>
> I have been using Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 for many years.  I am
> about to move up to 2013, which has built-in support for GitHub.  I have
> VS 2013 Community edition installed on a new dev virtual machine and
> upgraded to the latest service pack (pack 3).
>
> I would like to run a local GitHub server on my Windows 2008 R2 VM
> server which hosts my dev virtual machines, then build a project from an
> already existing 2010 project.
>
> To this point I have found all kinds of "it can be done" but no clear
> instructions to getting the server set up on Windows and from there
> getting connected from inside of Visual Studio.  Can anyone point me to
> a clear and concise instruction for making this work?
>
> Any assistance much appreciated.
>
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> John W. Colby

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