[Hidden-tech] Version Control

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:00:01 -0400 "Susanna Opper" <susanna at shawenon.com> wrote:

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> I write content for Web sites, among other things. I'm about to begin the
> copy writing part of a major project and wonder how others deal with version
> control. I have always used a process of renaming files v1, v2 etc. It
> works, but it's not elegant.
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> Has anyone found a better way? I assume developers deal with this issue,
> too. So eager to have comments from all.

It is called source code revision control.  There are several utility
sets that deal with this.  Although they are primarily meant for
program code source files, they in fact work for anything.

The latest of these packages is something called subversion.  It is an
open source package.  Visit http://subversion.tigris.org/ for details.
I've only ever used the Linux verison, but there appear to be binaries
available for MS-Windows and MacOSX

Subversion uses a 'repository', where 'master' version of your code (or
whatever) lives.  You check out your code (or whatever), make edits,
then 'commit' the changes back to the repository.  Subversion tracks
changes and actually just stores the changes (diffs), rather than whole
copies of each 'revision'.  You can export any revision you want, so you
can 'go back in time' to any point.  Oh, you include a 'comment' with
each commit -- typically you can use this to remind yourself (or others
who might also be working on the code) what the revision was all about.

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