Working on C++ Visual Studio projects across multiple PCs?

Steve Hatcher · 2015-07-23T14:06:11

Hi Guys, I am working on some C++ projects (Using VS 2013), and I have a pc at home and a laptop I want them synced across. I use google drive for everything else but for these projects its a bit different, because sometimes the project will include a library or header file that is somewhere else relative to the project, or it will need to include an entire library such as boost. I have kinda 'hacked' it to work for now. As long as google drive is installed in the same location on both pcs (In this case user/username/googledrive/c++) the projects work fine.. But the annoying thing is for instance both pcs need to sync up the entirety of boost, which is 500 meg, and 45k files. I know I could download boost separately on each pc, but then If I am working on one pc and need to update it, the update will not go to the other pc unless I either remember to download boost again, or sync it across google drive. I have never used GITHUB or any of that source control, so am wondering if it is the solution to my problems. Any advice or a better way to do this is appreciated. Thanks

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Started by SteveHatcher July 20, 2015 02:29 PM

11 comments, last by SteveHatcher 8 years, 9 months ago

wintertime

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July 22, 2015 06:56 AM

If you get a free account on bitbucket you can have as many private repositories as you want and choose between git and easier mercurial, as long as you dont want to let 5 or more other people access it.
The website looks different, with some sub-pages better on bitbucket and some better on github, its just that github gained more popularity earlier cause of the git hype.

SmkViper

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July 22, 2015 01:47 PM

You can also get a free account on Visual Studio Online for up to 5 users and have access to both Team Foundation Version Control (a centralized version control system) or Git.

Or you can just as easily grab some plugins for VS and point them at the repository of your choice

SteveHatcher

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July 23, 2015 02:06 PM

Thanks for all the input guys, I am having a read about all of the suggestions. Leading towards visual studio online as I am a huge MSoft fanboy...

The thing about google drive that was annoying me is that you can only choose really one level of folders to sync so I can tell googleDrive\C++ and that's it, everything inside C++ is synced.

To be honest now that it is synced across all PC's google drive is working fine for now, but as you mentioned it is not really version control, so I think even a combination of both would suit my needs.

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