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

I meant to take this to another level where subversion called an
external script if the file matches a given mime-type.

On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 05:31:13PM -0700, Erik Anderson wrote:
> Isn't this how conflict-resolution is handled in Subversion where simple
> text merges are simply not available? The files are flagged as requiring
> manual merge and the three versions of the file are available for
> comparison...
>
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> From: Carl Baldwin [mailto:cnb@fc.hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:29 PM
> To: Vincent Starre
> Cc: Jay Paulson; users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Questions about using subversion for non-coding projects.
>
> Hello,
>
> I just had a thought.
>
> I wonder if subversion could be made to defer the merging operation on
> files with certain mime-types. This way, subversion would merely detect
> the need to merge a file but defer the actual work to a script or
> something. In the best case, it might be possible to wrap tools that
> would attempt (hopefully successfully) to merge files like MS office
> documents. If nothing else, the script could tell the user that a merge
> needs to be done and mark the working copy dirty.
>
> I actually got this idea from git. It has this sort of flexibility.
> Actually, it will make a great back-end for this sort of use when it
> gets a webdav interface (plus maybe autoversioning) and a neat windows
> client. For now, though, its not an option.
>
> Carl
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 07:01:18PM -0400, Vincent Starre wrote:
> > 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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