[NBLUG/talk] Recommendations for Version Control?

[William Tracy]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Troy Arnold <troy at zenux.net> wrote:
> Subversion fits your request pretty much perfectly.

Subversion is cool. :-)

> While Subversion stores just the diffs on text-based files, if you change a
> binary file it will create a whole new copy copy in the repo.  There might
> be another tool that's more space efficient for binary files.

I'm not aware of any FOSS versioning software that handles binary
files in an elegant way. There are commercial solutions (can't name
them off the top of my head) for things like images and word processor
documents.

Just to throw this out: RTF is actually plaintext with a funny markup
language, so I would consider that for documents going into version
control. If your images are vector-based, definitely look into
something like SVG which is plaintext internally. For actual raster
images, you'll just have to accept that not all of SVN's features will
work with them.

> As for GUI's?  The CLI is so simple and character efficient that I've never
> felt the need.

Let me point out that any modern IDE worth it's salt will have an SVN plugin.

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