Feb 23 2011

The Check-in Dance

Category: Uncategorizedzvolkov @ 2:11 pm

Another canonical article called “the check-in dance”:

Basically, instead of

  1. Implement your changes
  2. Check-in
  3. Go home

Should do

  1. Implement your changes
  2. Get latest from SVN
  3. Merge any conflicts
  4. Do a recompile, fix any problems found
  5. Run all unit-tests, fix any problems found
  6. Commit the changes to SVN
  7. Stop coding until the build passes on TeamCity
  8. If TeamCity build breaks, drop everything else and fix the build

This does not apply to legacy projects, but on new projects, this is our golden standard.

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