[Framers] Anyone using OneDrive as a repository?

Robert Lauriston robert at lauriston.com
Thu Mar 10 12:24:16 PST 2016


That works only with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.

For smooth collaboration, you really want a lock option on the server
side, like you get with Subversion and every other revision control
system I've used except Git.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Peter Gold
<peter at petergold.photography> wrote:
> I think DropBox has a "professional" or "business" option. Not sure if it
> would work for check-in/out type of use.
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> StarTeam is a revision control system. Microsoft's counterpart is Team
>> Foundation Server, which is fine if you're already paying for it
>> through a MSDN subscription or whatever. Subversion (SVN) is probably
>> the most popular alternative.
>>
>> OneDrive is MS's answer to Google Drive and Dropbox. I don't think any
>> of those is a good choice as a repository for shared files when you
>> want to make sure only one person edits them at a time. Even as a
>> single user I've run into file locking conflicts that were a pain to
>> resolve.


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