This should give you a lot of information on WebDAV before you decide to use
it:
http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/programming_tool_guides/version_contr
ol_with_subversion/svn.webdav.html
While WebDAV can be nice and make things very easy to use for end-users,
there are some cons against it. Definitely something to research before
jumping into.
-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Jackson [mailto:karl.jackson@starfarmproductions.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 6:09 PM
To: Johnathan Gifford; subversion
Subject: Re: Autoversioning
That makes a lot of sense, thanks Johnathan ! What about normal text files,
created using TextEdit on mac os x, is that merge-able using autoversioning?
If 2 people decided open the same text file (or lets say php files, edited
in Dreamweaver for example), would it merge the changes when each of them
saved it to the mounted drive ?
On 6/15/06 4:53 PM, "Johnathan Gifford" <jgifford@wernervas.com> wrote:
> All users connecting via WebDAV must authenticate for any MS Office
> application to work, especially on Windows platforms, otherwise you
> will be read only version of the file. Anonymous connections via
> Windows will not work due to the locking of the file.
>
> As far as merging is concerned, since all MS Office application files
> are binary, there is no merging available. It will simply overwrite
> the previous version.
>
> Johnathan
>
>
> On 6/15/06 4:41 PM, "Karl Jackson"
> <karl.jackson@starfarmproductions.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I am a new subversion user evaluating subversion for our office, and
>> am intrigued by the autoversioning procedure, as it seems I can skip
>> the whole versioning training.
>> I have taken a bit to get it up and running but its stable now and I
>> am running svn1.3.1/apache2.2.2/os x 10.4.
>>
>> I am trying to understand the autoversioning process: does it adhere
>> to the copy-modify-merge model of subversion or does it use the
>> Lock-Modify-Unlock model?
>>
>> I ask because I tried to test my auto versioned webdav share using a
>> ms word file and found that, when it was being edited , other users
>> could only open read-only copies of the file.
>>
>>
>> I have read the svn book section on autoversioning, and all it says
>> is that the system automatically versions the files, but how does it
>> handle merging files , or conflicts with merging ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your time,
>> Karl
>>
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