On Nov 9, 2007, at 02:26, a a wrote:
> I'm tend to use svn quite a bit in most of my projects. Not
> necessarily just to share development, but also just to manage
> versions of things I produce, such as documents etc., so that I can
> make changes to things without bothering that I might make a
> mistake etc because I can always just go back to the previous version.
> It struck me that this kind of management would be extremely useful
> in many circumstances. Infact, pretty much everything you produce
> yourself (documents, projects, artwork, etc etc) would benefit from
> this kind of management. And you don't have to be a "power user" to
> want this either. Even the most novice of users may find this
> beneficial.
> So, wouldn't it be nice if svn was actually built into the OS? It
> could be a property of a file, eg "v" would represent a "versioned"
> file:
>
> john@host:~$ ll /home
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x- 2 frank frank 4096 2007-03-21 10:02 frank
> drwxr-xr-xv 89 iain john 4096 2007-11-09 00:25 john
> drwxr-xr-xv 5 bob bob 4096 2007-05-11 10:52 bob
>
> Anything in those directories could be automatically versioned, and
> you wouldn't ever have to do svn add/remove/copy, you could just
> use the standard touch/rm/cp commands and the OS would work out
> what this meant for svn. This would be beneficial, because
> sometimes you can forget to use the svn versions.
>
> Comments?
As I'm sure you know, Subversion doesn't do that, and probably won't.
But nothing prevents people from using the Subversion libraries to
create such a product.
Have you looked into FSVS? Not sure if it does anything remotely
similar to this, but you may be interested in it anyway:
http://fsvs.tigris.org/
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Received on Fri Nov 9 09:56:38 2007