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Posted to users@subversion.apache.org by Albert Shih <Al...@obspm.fr> on 2007/03/05 13:55:37 UTC
using svn for collab work
Hi all
There are some peoples in my staff to want use subversion for two purposes
:
1/ versionning etc...
2/ Collaborative work
For the 1/ of course subversion is perfect (this peoples work on MacOS X
and Windows). For the second it's perfect too....but (of course the're "but"
;-) ) sometime this group want sent into the group a big document (for
example a book in Word, or a big picture), and those document don't need
versionning.
My question is :
Is there any solution in subversion to versionning only in 2 or 3
version a document ? For example if I add a
big_document in version N
this document is automatically delete (in repository) in version
N+2 (or N+3 etc...) ?
If it's not possible, can I have a folder under subversion where
the file is not versionning but the group can acces throught
subversion to this document ?
at least :
If all this is impossible what's kind of software you think I must
use for this purpose (Opensource, multi-OS (Linux/FreeBSD, MacOS X,
and Windows).
Regards.
NB: If you ask me why I just don't let subversion store every version, it's
because this kind of documents is big...very big > 1Go, and sometime there
are lots of them. And event with subversion compression and binary diff the
repository fast become very huge.
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Re: using svn for collab work
Posted by Albert Shih <Al...@obspm.fr>.
Le 05/03/2007 à 15:13:18+0100, Ulrich Eckhardt a écrit
Thanks for you answer
> > Is there any solution in subversion to versionning only in 2 or 3
> > version a document ?
>
> No. Subversion was designed to track changes to files, it won't discard such
> information. That said, there are a million possible solutions to your
> problem, but neither of them necessarily includes the use of Subversion.
>
OK. But the problem is in that group there are many kind of users, Linux(
need use a CLI client), MacOS X/Windows (need gui client) and there already
use something like CVS for software developpement.
> > and Windows).
>
> To distribute files, you could use a webserver (HTTP or FTP). For sharing
> folders there is FTP, Windows shares, Appletalk(?) shares, NFS, rsync...
>
Well some of my user is «power-user» I cant tell them to use anything, but
some other is not, and if I don't have a integrate solution for those
big_document AND the software source, he continue to use old-fashion like
FTP.
And the problem with FTP/HTTP is there are no indication what's is the last
version of those big_documents.
> Your concern about the repository getting too big might even have a solution
> in Subversion: you could create a dedicated repository only for those files
> and regularly remove old versions via a dump/dumpfilter/reload cycle. Of
> course, that means that you can't move to versions before that anymore.
OK I just look of that.
Thanks again.
Regards.
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Re: using svn for collab work
Posted by Ulrich Eckhardt <ec...@satorlaser.com>.
On Monday 05 March 2007 14:55, Albert Shih wrote:
> [...] sometime this group want sent into the group a big document
> (for example a book in Word, or a big picture), and those document don't
> need versionning.
>
> My question is :
>
> Is there any solution in subversion to versionning only in 2 or 3
> version a document ?
No. Subversion was designed to track changes to files, it won't discard such
information. That said, there are a million possible solutions to your
problem, but neither of them necessarily includes the use of Subversion.
> If all this is impossible what's kind of software you think I must
> use for this purpose (Opensource, multi-OS (Linux/FreeBSD, MacOS X,
> and Windows).
To distribute files, you could use a webserver (HTTP or FTP). For sharing
folders there is FTP, Windows shares, Appletalk(?) shares, NFS, rsync...
Your concern about the repository getting too big might even have a solution
in Subversion: you could create a dedicated repository only for those files
and regularly remove old versions via a dump/dumpfilter/reload cycle. Of
course, that means that you can't move to versions before that anymore.
Uli
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