Does that work with MS Office nowadays? Back in the days when I tried
(must have been around SVN 1.3/1.4) the WebDAV couldn't handle the
locking scheme MSO used, which means you had to copy the document out,
edit it there and then copy it back in. That's when we turned WebDAV
access off.
And of course WebDAV also means empty commit messages on everything.
That might be as good as it gets in some contexts, but I value a good
commit message, so I would always look for options that make it easy to
give a commit message. Not that I expect that everyone will use that
well or use it at all, but WebDAV means you give up a priori.
The other feature missing in SVN/WebDAV (back then) was auto-branching.
Some commercial systems advertise the ability to mount the repository as
network share, commits are updates, if the commit conflicts,
auto-branching with notification to some admin can be used. I don't
think most business folks want to know about merging and WebDAV won't
let them do it properly anyway. I guess you could tell them to use the
old school naming patterns if in doubt, but that means at least the
conflict needs to be detected first.
Peter
On 25/04/10 02:06, Kevin Wright wrote:
For business docs, SVN does have one nice benefit: If working via
apache httpd it can be used like any other WebDAV provider, mounted
via "web folders" in Windows, and just keep track of changes
transparently (every write automatically bumps the revision number)
The catch is that mergeability is lost, but in documents this isn't
really so critical, especially given that all past edits are still
retained.
On 24 April 2010 14:43, Edward Gabriel Moraru <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Be aware that the business people sometimes edit the same
document, and SVN/TortoiseSVN doesn't know how to merge binary
files (as are treated doc, xls and ppt files)
Explain them how to use the "Get lock"/"Release lock" in TortoiseSVN.
It's a hard sell, I've tried and failed it, unfortunatedly.
Best of luck,
Edward.
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Eric Jablow <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Apr 23, 7:46 pm, Peter Becker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> But let's think more practical. Number one I would sell is
the move from
> CVS to SVN. CVS is just too scary due to it's lack of atomic
commits.
> The consistent revision number across the repository is
another nice
> feature in SVN. While I agree with other posters that there are
> technically superior options, I wouldn't even propose them
based on the
> description of the organizational culture. SVN makes me
swear sometimes,
> but it is leagues better than CVS. Setting up an SVN/trac
combo is
> pretty straightforward, although it of course means someone
has to deal
> with security patches and backups.
I would add TortoiseSVN to the list, as long as you stay with
Windows.
I'd even push it to the non-programmers. Budget memos and
requirement
documents need version control too.
Respectfully,
Eric Jablow
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