On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 12:18 +0100, Dave Lawrence wrote:
> Stefan Küng wrote:
> > Ed McDonagh wrote:
> > That depends on the application with which you open the files. Some
> > applications modify every file when opening, writing some "last viewed"
> > or "last opened" date string to the files.
>
> We had an IDE that did that and I managed to work around it by using an
> svn:needs-lock property to make the files read only.
Most of our files are not set to 'needs-lock', but some are, such as the
excel templates. However even these are affected by this issue, so that
isn't the solution for me. They are not however set to 'read only' in
addition, so maybe this is why it worked for you?
> > If you have such applications: get rid of those. It's a clear indication
> > that the developers of those apps don't use version control - and I
> > don't think I have to tell you what that means for the quality of those
> > apps.
>
> Then we did that. That was a better solution.
Moving to OOo is a hard sell when you get MS Windows and Office for
'free'! (NHS has a deal with MS, so at the department level, there is no
associated financial cost).
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