Ben,
Do your scores use a format that enables diffing with a version control
tool? I love Tortoise for the same reasons you point out, but with
binary files (e.g. from Finale) I'm still limited to guessing which
revision to open and then searching manually within the older file. Not
a problem with SVN or Tortoise, obviously, but still a problem. Maybe
you are using ABC or some other text-based notation system?
Ted
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From: sussman@gmail.com [mailto:sussman@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Ben
Collins-Sussman
Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:36 AM
To: users@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Cc: dev@subversion.tigris.org
Subject: Why I love TortoiseSVN.
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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