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Redmine Cookbook

By : Shamasis Bhattacharya
Book Image

Redmine Cookbook

By: Shamasis Bhattacharya

Overview of this book

In a variety of online project management tools, Redmine markets itself as offering flexibility. Choosing the right management tool can mean the difference between the success and failure of a project. Flexible project management tools bend themselves to fit your needs, whether that’s communication regarding a simple project, or collaboration, or more complex project methodology such as SCRUM, or an issue-code relationship, or the need of different methodology for your project. Whether you are project manager or system administrator, this book provides valuable recipes to get the best possible performance out of your team, organization, infrastructure, and Redmine itself. Through a series of carefully crafted recipes covering the nitty-gritty of Redmine, you’ll be guided through the installation of Redmine, as well as how to fine-tune and customize your Redmine installation. Finally, we walk you through integrating Redmine with other softwares and databases like Tortoise SVN and Visual Studio and troubleshooting Redmine.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Redmine Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the repository module to display code differences


When doing software development projects, software code is an invaluable asset. Many teams prefer performing various kinds of code reviews. Redmine lets you share links with differences between source code among two commit versions with your team as simple as copying and pasting a URL where everyone can see the code. Luckily, these code review features are a built-in part of the repository module.

Getting ready

The repository module needs to be turned on and the repository added for a particular project you are going to view the code for. To learn how to do this, refer to the Getting ready part of the Using the issue-code relationship recipe from Chapter 3, Project Management with Redmine.

How to do it…

To see code, revision, differences, or which files were changed in particular code revision, use the following steps:

  1. Navigate to the project that has a repository module turned on and the repository properly configured.

  2. Click the Repository...