On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:38 AM, maheshwar singh <maheshwars_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Todd,
>
> I'm working on a solution for our BI team.
> The guys create reports that are in use, when they make changes i want to
> version and store the earlier one.
> If the new report has issues, replace this with the earlier instance.
> So, i want this guys to add to source control, checkin / checkout.
> But i dont want them to deleted the older instance.
>
> The existing workaround requires people to make a copy of the report, zip
> it and store it for safe-keeping.
>
> i agree, subversion is not made for this activity. I'm trying to look for a
> solution that is easy to setup and own.
I think you're misunderstanding how Subversion works.
You can ALWAYS retrieve the old version of the report by specifying to
Subversion which revision you want to retrieve. Nothing will be
"deleted" by a future change to the report being committed.
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Received on 2008-03-18 13:12:12 CET