Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-21 Thread Drew Northup
On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr wrote: David Aguilar dav...@gmail.com writes: I would advise against the file locking, though. You ain't gonna need it ;-) What do you suggest to merge Word files? If the files are in the DOCX format you can just

Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-21 Thread Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr wrote: David Aguilar dav...@gmail.com writes: I would advise against the file locking, though. You ain't gonna need it ;-) What do you

Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-21 Thread Sitaram Chamarty
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Drew Northup n1xim.em...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr wrote: David Aguilar dav...@gmail.com writes: I would advise against the file locking, though. You ain't gonna need it ;-) What do you

Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-08 Thread Matthieu Moy
Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: So, is it possible to lock a file while someone work on it ? No, and I honestly think it's a bad idea. If you work on non-mergeable files (e.g. *.doc files. There are merge tools for MS Word and LibreOffice, but my experience with them was not

Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-08 Thread David Aguilar
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Matthieu Moy matthieu@grenoble-inp.fr wrote: Ramkumar Ramachandra artag...@gmail.com writes: So, is it possible to lock a file while someone work on it ? No, and I honestly think it's a bad idea. If you work on non-mergeable files (e.g. *.doc files.

Re: In search of a version control system

2012-10-08 Thread Matthieu Moy
David Aguilar dav...@gmail.com writes: I would advise against the file locking, though. You ain't gonna need it ;-) What do you suggest to merge Word files? -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe git in the body of a