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Re: Questions about using subversion for non-coding projects.

From: Vincent Starre <vstarre_at_comcast.net>
Date: 2005-08-26 01:01:18 CEST

I would not recommend subversion for "text"-like things which are not
bare text. While svn certainly /can/ do things like this, it would treat
all files as binary, so a lot (though certainly not all) of the
usefulness would be gone.
Word[for example] is a common enough format that I'm sure there are some
version control systems which are format-aware of Word[for example] files.
Though I can't say with certainty, having not actually used it,
"SharePoint" comes to mind.

Jay Paulson wrote:

> Hello all-
>
> I'm doing some research for many things and from reading about
> subversion it might do the trick, but I still have questions.
>
> The company I currently work for has many different projects, however
> they are not coding projects. The projects are mainly research ones
> with many documents (Word, Excell, PDF docs etc) that are used with
> this research (mainly documents things about the research but usually
> go through many versions before a final version is released).
>
> What is needed is some sort of version control system that team
> members can use to share files, collaborate ideas, and basically have
> a project tracker kind of like SourceForge.net.
>
> My question is can Subversion handle something like this with mainly
> different kind of documents that aren't programs etc? Is there a good
> web interface that promotes users to collaborate? I would prefer if
> the web interface was written in PHP but if there are good ones
> written in something else I'd like to see them.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions!
>
>
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