I write musical scores for plays, and I often collaborate with other
people on the scores. Subversion, I've discovered, is a perfect tool
for this: my collaborators and I can effortlessly switch between
Windows and Mac platforms, lock files, see commit mails, and so on.
(Recently, I've even converted over a professional team of
music-typesetters to Subversion, and they're loving it too.)
Having the history of a score is amazing. We're constantly revising
the music as the rehearsal process goes on. Instead of making
backups, I just change things however I want and sit comfortably,
knowing that Subversion is remembering everything.
Today I was asked to resurrect a passage of music that had been
deleted a week ago. I asked TortoiseSVN to show me the log of the
file: all the versions displayed in a nice list. I right-clicked an
older version of the file, and selected "open" from the drop-down
menu. Poof, the old score popped up. I copied the old music passage
to the clipboard, then pasted it into a newest version of the file.
Sometimes GUI tools really *are* better than command-line tools.
Stephan, Luebbe: thanks for such a great GUI!
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Received on Mon Jan 23 20:52:24 2006