Document revision control

[Amy Super]

Thank you to everyone who responded. I'm not sure why my email didn't go
through until Friday when I sent it Wednesday, but that's OK. I ended up
putting Subversion first on my list of things to evaluate, so I'm glad
to see that others have had success with it.

Thanks also for the discussion of .mif vs .fm - at my last job, I was
asked to keep files as .mif for storage space reasons, but I never saw
the sense of it given that I couldn't read the diffs anyway.
Realistically the files weren't gigantic, but that was a very small shop
with odd priorities.

One more question for those of you who use Subversion - does it work
like Perforce, where you have a copy of the files on your local machine,
and then you check them in and out and refresh your local files from the
main depot? I really liked that because it did a good job of handling
images placed by reference, and other relative file links.

Thanks again!
Amy




-----Original Message-----
From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On
Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 5:55 PM
To: Amy Super
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Document revision control

Subversion is good and free.

Perforce is good and not free. You don't have to convert to .mif, you
can check in .fm and .book files as binaries. You can't merge binaries
but who's going to merge a .mif file anyway?

The one other you might want to look at is Git for Windows, which is a
distributed system, reportedly has some advantages for peer workgroups.
I haven't used it.

Losers:

CVS is free and not great.

SharePoint is not a CVS. Good luck getting it to do anything except host
MS Office-format docs.

Documentum is an enterprise solution for huge organizations.

MS Visual SourceSafe was bad but it's EOL, haven't used the successor,
which might be worth checking out if somehow you have licenses already.