I know there is a repository mine-is-bigger-than-yours list, but
no-one seems to be collecting any success stories yet. I thought
I'd drop this small one to get the ball rolling (perhaps someone
would like to collect them and stick them on the website somewhere).
History
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A small group (3-5) worked on the early revisions of a project for
a customer. They used Subversion for version control and all
worked merrily away.
Development then moved out to the customer premisis to finish
development and deploy to the customers environment.
The Success Bit
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Everyone was expecting the last bits of work in-house to be the
final development. However, it turned out that futher changes
were going to be needed requiring more builds and development
time. Staff were already onsite, and without Internet access
couldn't access the in-house repository. The customer had no
concept of version control (they're not in the software development
business) and had no system of their own.
Subversion to the rescue! We installed Apache with the Subversion
DAV modules on a Windows 2000 server on the customer site and
created a blank repository database. This literally took 5 minutes to
get up and running from scratch.
Using "svnadmin dump" in combination with "svndumpfilter"
from the in-house Linux server, we sent a copy out to the customer
site, with full history. Half an hour later, a complete working
Subversion environmemt with all the project history was available in
an otherwise isolated development environment. Work continued under
the safe umbrella of a version control system.
Thanks to the Subversion team for making it so easy!
daniel
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Received on Wed Jun 4 08:16:59 2003