Re: Best practices for getting non-tech folks to use subversion?

On Feb 22, 2006, at 22:34, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

>> I'm no sure what you mean by round trip twice. Small updates and
>> commits should be plenty quick.
>
> In the case where we have a dev server with the vhost and working
> repository. We use Samba so the user can mount the vhost on their
> desktop. We use TortioseSVN for subversion. When the user tells
> Tortiose to update the working copy, it will communicate with the
> subversion server, downloading any files that need updating and
> then copying them to the samba share. Tortiose thinks it's local,
> but it's really copying them down only to copy them back again.

We've had a setup like this for the past year. It's on an internal
office network though, so if your designers are not local, that may
be more of a problem. It's slow sometimes but our developers haven't
complained too loudly yet.

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Received on Thu Feb 23 02:07:21 2006