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Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By : ANDRIY LESYUK
Book Image

Mastering Redmine - Second Edition

By: ANDRIY LESYUK

Overview of this book

Redmine is not only one of the popular open source project management applications but also one of the best project hosting and issue tracking solutions. This book is an update of our previous successful edition, Mastering Redmine. This book is a comprehensive guide that will give you a detailed practical understanding on how to effectively manage, monitor and administer complex projects using Redmine. You will get familiar with the concept of Issue Tracking and will get to know why and what makes Redmine one of the best issue trackers. Another main part of Redmine functionality, which is Managing projects shows why this is one of the best applications for project hosting. Furthermore, you will learn more about Redmine rich text formatting syntax, access control and workflow and time Tracking. Towards the end, you will unleash the power of custom fields and guides to show how to customize Redmine without breaking upgrade compatibility. By the end of the book, you will have a deep practical understanding on how to effectively monitor and manage large scale and complex projects using Redmine.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Redmine Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Quick Syntax Reference
Index

Repository integration


Repository integration is an awesome feature of Redmine. I just can't imagine this application without it! So, I believe that you will like Redmine for having it. But as soon as you get to know how deep this integration can be, I'm sure you will love Redmine even more!

We will start by configuring repositories and ensuring that the basic integration works. Then we will discuss how to turn Redmine into a repository manager.

The Repositories tab

So, here we come to the last tab on the Settings page—the Repositories tab:

The exclamation mark near the name of an Source Control Management (SCM) command indicates that there is some issue with this SCM. The small text below the checklist in the Enabled SCM block advises that you may need to specify proper paths to the commands in config/configuration.yml. But you should do this in rare cases, for example, if you have installed SCMs from sources. And in most other cases, the exclamation mark just means that the SCM is not installed...