Re: Dummie question: The versioning system
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Per olof Ljungmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I am wondering what type of versioning is used for various documents in > many *nix OS's. For instance, > "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.25.2.5.2.1 2002/07/16 12:33:21 > des Exp $" That's CVS. > Is this something that could be used for an office enviroment or just > for developing software? It can be reasonably used on anything that stores files as plain text documents. So the answer depends on your office environment. If you're using one of the XML-based office systems, you can use it with some success. If you're still using a system that stores data in binary files, it'll work - but isn't nearly as useful. I've had very good experiences using Perforce - which I perfer to CVS - to store system configuration files. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Dummie question: The versioning system
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi all, I am wondering what type of versioning is used for various documents in many *nix OS's. For instance, "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.25.2.5.2.1 2002/07/16 12:33:21 des Exp $" Is this something that could be used for an office enviroment or just for developing software? The software is CVS, which is used in many, many software development projects. www.cvshome.org CVS is designed with special features for tracking versions within text files (such as C source code) and does an excellent job not only of keeping versions, but allowing one to see the progress as changes are made. CVS is not so good at tracking changes in non-text files (such as images, OpenOffice documents, etc) but can still do so. You maintain versioning, but CVS is unable to understand the content of the file, thus it can't give you the changes from version 1.15 to 1.16 or insert version strings in the document (as you see above). Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Re: Dummie question: The versioning system
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2003-02-25 09:43:03 +0100: > I am wondering what type of versioning is used for various documents in > many *nix OS's. For instance, > "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.25.2.5.2.1 2002/07/16 12:33:21 > des Exp $" > > Is this something that could be used for an office enviroment or just > for developing software? the above line is a CVS tag. CVS is fine for plain text documents, and mostly source code, because it's line based. if you want something for management, you might be better with a SVN server accessed over WebDAV (I don't exactly keep up with Subversion's development, so this might not be available just yet). -- If you cc me or remove the list(s) completely I'll most likely ignore your message.see http://www.eyrie.org./~eagle/faqs/questions.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Dummie question: The versioning system
Hi all, I am wondering what type of versioning is used for various documents in many *nix OS's. For instance, "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.25.2.5.2.1 2002/07/16 12:33:21 des Exp $" Is this something that could be used for an office enviroment or just for developing software? Thanks, To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
