Re: Tool for document management
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:46:59 -0500, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> said:
>> At first glance I am leaning for throwing Subversion on my main box
>> so I can sync the other two machines off of it. Not sure if there is
>> something better suited to the task or that svn would be particularly
>> ill suited.
> How big (in bytes) is this writing project?
> Unless it's got lots of images, it shouldn't be that big.
> (Uncompressed, the text of the KJV Bible is only (decimal) 4.4MB, and
> compressed it's (decimal) 1.3MB.)
> So why couldn't you tar up your directory into proj_<timestamp>.tar
> and rcp it to a couple of other computers? (Since you use odt, no
> need to compress the tarball.)
Err. This would be suboptimal for a coding project, and perhaps
also for a writing project. Diffs between versions, keeping track of
change history, keeping different ending/plots variations going would
also make use of branches. Tagging a particular milestone, etc, all
fit better with what Steve suggested than just throwing tar/zip files
around.
Now, I do not have concrete suggestions beyond subversion, since
one of the requirements was windows support, and I have no idea which
source code management systems works well with windows.
manoj
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