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Best practice for storing third party tools

Currently my company is storing the installers (and in some cases the installed directory copy) for some open source third party tools that our build uses. Were storing these files in our github repo ...
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3 votes
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Bringing a large, complex legacy project under git control

I'm a newbie with respect to git, but not to version control in general — I've been using CVS and Subversion for years. I've read both the Progit and O'Reilly (Version Control with Git) books, ...
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Versioning hardware vendor SDK with git

We have n C projects which reference 4 different versions of a device SDK - 12.3, 13.1, 15.0, and 15.2. There is no public upstream repo for the SDK - it is released as a zip file. We need to patch ...
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How do you use external libraries in git?

SFML, in this case, has a Git repo and a download page. Until now I have always downloaded from the download page, which came (at least for the compiler I use) with .a and .hpp files and could easily ...
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Should you include libraries and code-unrelated files in your git project and upload them to Github?

When you are working with an external library in git, should you add it to Git or should it be in gitignore? If you put it in gitignore, you run into the problem that if someone (or you yourself on ...
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4 votes
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Third party libraries in an open-source C# project

I'm going to start an open source project from scratch, using git (via github) to manage the source. The project will be written in C# and will depend on at least two external libraries (more are ...
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