Re: Request for Development

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 12:59:31PM -0600, Duncan McQueen wrote:
>...
> I currently work for the University of Minensota Human Rights Library
> (http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts). We utilize Dreamweaver MX and 4 for our
> web-development. We have about 10-15 different individuals all
> contributing to our website. The biggest nightmare is version control
> when one user overwrites another.

One of the Dreamweaver releases (I forget which version) added WebDAV
support. You might be able to configure a Subversion server, enable
autoversioning, and point Dreamweaver at it. While people could still
overwrite changes, you won't *lose* the work. For example:

   Jon and Sally check out rev 5
   Jon makes changes to rev 5, checks in rev 6
   Sally makes changes to rev 5, checks in rev 7, overwriting Jon's work

You still have both changes, but will need to sit down with a true SVN
client and merge the 5->6 changes into rev 7, creating rev 8.

I'm not sure whether Dreamweaver attempts to use WebDAV locks, and/or
whether it pays attempt to an ETag when it does a PUT. If it *does* look at
the ETag, then Sally would have been warned about her overwrite.

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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