If 2 people are editing a word doc at the same time will Subversion
merge them properly on commit? What about excel or powerpoint?
Thanks for the info.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charley Bay [mailto:charleyb123@gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 6:29 PM
To: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Re: Document Management with SVN
<snip, yes, svn for doc management>
On 11/19/06, Bryan D. Andrews <bandrews@trendcore.com> wrote:
> Great to hear. Can you give some details on your implementation?
>
> It would be great if there was a productized version of this that we
> could buy (if anyone knows of anything)!
We're a biotech company with heavy EE, ME, and software
development. We cut the software department to subversion
(mostly through tortoise, some command-line svn) and dropped
our commercial version control tool. We also use subversion
for document management (some MSOffice, cutting to OpenOffice,
then lots of Wiki/Trac).
When the EE and ME guys found out what we were doing, they
cut over too -- CAD docs, office docs, text files, spread sheets, etc.
They understand it (version control), and they love it (most of them
didn't really do the heavy versioning that software developers are
trained to do, and we just had to give them a quick orientation as
to how it works). Mostly the EE and ME are using Tortoise-Svn,
with no real problems.
You *can* lock, but most of the time we don't.
We have another commercial product for formal document control
(assigns ID's, has its own digital signature process for new rev's).
That system is pretty "heavy", though (higher overhead), but we
accept it as the separation between "controlled" and "uncontrolled"
documents (e.g., we're an ISO9001 and FDA cleared manufacturing
site, it's a regulatory distinction).
What might you want in a commercial product? We're finding
it to be pretty good as-is. (I'm quite interested in your environment
and issues -- technical, perceived, etc.)
--charley
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