On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:06:09 -0500, Kyle <kyle.kline@gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> My company is evaluating chucking SourceSafe in favor of SVN. We have
> been using SVN as a pilot for several months for our .NET projects and
> have had a great experience with it, absolutely no issues. (running
> the 1.1.x series + TortoiseSVN & Ankh) -- branching/merging are
> *wonderful* esp. when coming from SourceSafe.
>
> The unique challenge in chucking SourceSafe is that we have a team of
> content developers (HTML, graphics, etc.) who are using
> Interdev/SourceSafe to develop content. They can hit "Save" in their
> editor, then "Refresh" in their browser and their changes are
> immediately visible. They do not need any parts of the advanced
> source control (branching, merging, etc.) -- just a stable way to keep
> a history.
Have you considered mounting your subversion repository as a webdav
share? You can enable writing to it using the mod_dav_svn
Autoversioning functionality.
HTH,
Erik.
>
> Some factors:
> - Interdev is only used as a text editor with integrated scm (SS), so
> it is not necessary once SS goes away
> - They need to maintain their Save/Refresh development style
> - There content development team is small
> - They cannot develop locally on their boxes because we do some
> dynamic content processing that requires the content be served from a
> web server
>
> My current thinking is to use a shared working copy. IE, they work on
> a working copy that is also the copy the web is served from. This
> gives them Save/Refresh, plus the ability to have basic source
> control. I have tested this out with a few devs here, and it works.
> I know that a shared working copy is less than ideal, but remember,
> this is a unique scenario -- their basic need is to edit & rapidly
> test changes AND have some sort of basic source control. It is rare
> for two devs to be working in the same directory/area, so collisions
> would be minimal.
>
> I have searched the archives and really can't find anything related to
> this. Does anyone have any experience or insights on this?
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
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