[TSVN] Re: Shared Working Copy for Document Library

"Troy Simpson" <troy@ebswift.com> writes:

> Thankyou for your reply Jens.
You're welcome.

>> What kind of files are you going to manage? Office Documents
>
> Yes, office documents.

Well, I have many office documents checked into my repositories and as I am
currently the only committer, it works like a charm. I am eager to
test the 1.2.X release, but unfortunately there a some deadlines with
higher priorities...

>
> We're currently experimenting with using a subversion server - just in the
> beginning stages of doing that. Hopefully that might shed a different light
> on permissions.

Well using a server has several advantages:

- No problems with users mangling their drive connections.
- No write permissions in the repository directory necessary for users (only for
  the user running the server process).

Disadvantages:

- You have to give every user commit permissions via apache/svnserve,
  if you want to track who did what.
- You've to manage the server.

> I guess it would be really helpful if someone else in the group was doing
> something similar to what we want to achieve with the shared working folder.
> You can imagine having people at the basic administration assistant level -
> you do not want them doing anything more complicated with a subversion
> repository than a commit.

If you use local working copies, you'd have to use and enforce locking
on the office-documents. By using a shared working copy, office would
manage that (the "User XYZ has opened blablub, do you want to open it
readonly?"-thingy).

> Even the experienced people would not be pleased
> at the prospect of maintaining a local working copy - they'd prefer we
> didn't have version control at all.

From the management point of view, there should be no other option
than version control.

You could also have a look, if subversion's WebDAV support has become
usable and could be used somewhat more transparently.

Jens

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