I have been using SVN and Tortoise with FrameMaker for the last few years. It's "okay" but I am now making the switch to TFS and Visual Studio, because our development team is switching from SVN to TFS (and using Visual Studio for versioning).
My biggest problem with SVN was actually creating new branches or folders and copying files in. For some reason, it never seemed to work, and SVN is not very intuitive or user-friendly (at least not to me). I'm actually finding Visual Studio a lot easier to learn and use. Then sometimes when you replace a file in SVN with a newer one, you get this strange red bar across the file after you commit it; not sure what that means. I'm also tired of dealing with strange phantom files that no longer exist on either my local machine or on the network server and yet, SVN keeps telling me that the file is missing. So even when you do things correctly, you'll get strange results. As far as seeing differences, according to the Frame online Help, it has a Compare Documents option (File>Utilities>Compare) Documents). Feel free to send specific questions as well. Lea Galanter Lead Technical Editor and Writer F T I Technology lea.galanter at fticonsulting.com www.ftitechnology.com 206-689-4438 (o) 206-617-9717 (m)
