Hi,

 your questions (please excuse my limited English) concern the very basic 
workings of versioning. So I suggest you familiarize yourself with the concept. 
I am no programmer myself and keep my dissertation project under version 
control (e.g. subversion). For me this link was quite helpful to get started:

http://strangenoises.org/subversion-for-writers/

Your beanstalk account is basically a central storing place. When "chekin' out" 
you get a copy on your computer to work with. Any change then needs to be put 
back and _merged_ with the online version at beanstalk. You (or any colleagues) 
can have other _versions_ of that central suppository (the storing place) e.g. 
_working copies_. If you change things in one of your working copies and 
DIFFERENT changes on the OTHER working copies, _checking in_ means that there 
will be a CONFLICT to be resolved. Subversion gives you the ability to control 
all this, and Versions is a program to enable working with this via a nice GUI 
(with limits, e.g. merge).

Hope that gets you started,

Regards,

Rolf


Am 29.03.2011 um 10:33 schrieb pSouper:

> Hi all,
> would anyone be able to explain the process of working on the same
> project from two locations using versions and beanstalk.
> 
> I have a home and work mac, I have two versionsapp's, I have one
> beanstalkapp account. I would like to 'upload' changes from work to
> beanstalk, download these changes at home, add, edit & delete then
> upload the files again ready for download again at work.
> 
> I would have though check-in/out is the way to go but 'update' &
> 'commit' also do things that look similar so i have a  few Q's...
> 
> what does update do (in my case)? does it check beanstalk for any
> changes that have been made from commits not on this machine or does
> it just rescan the working folders for changes as refresh the list?
> 
> what does checkout do? Does it lock the beanstalkapp file preventing
> it from being changes or commited over by another machine until i
> check it in again? also.. does it first check for & download the
> latest version from beanstalkapp then lock it?
> 
> Is there an n.bullet-point 'work-flow' for using versions
> collaboratively from two locations? or would anyone have a few mins to
> know one up and free my mind of the deamons please?
> 
> all help greatly appreciated.
> pSouper
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