[svlug] Need advice/help managing documents - Subversion? GIT?

[Edward Cherlin]

Have you looked at BackupPC? We use it in my house to back up Linux,
Mac, and Windows systems to our terabyte RAID Linux server (now that
SATA hard drives are under 15¢/G).

http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:10 AM, Bill Ward <bill at wards.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Bill Ward (bill at wards.net):
>>
>> > I have several laptops that I use (my own, issued by work, my wife's)
>> > plus
>> > my desktop Linux box.  On each one I have differing subsets of
>> > documents,
>> > hopefully not in different versions :) and no really consistent way of
>> > syncing them up or backing them up.
>> >
>> > I was thinking about setting up Subversion or GIT, and checking the
>> > files
>> > in/out of that.  I've never worked with either one, though I have a lot
>> > of
>> > experience with CVS and ClearCase.  So a few questions...
>>
>> Your situation is not particularly well defined, in part because you
>> have not said what "document" means in this context.
>
> I left that vague because there are a lot of different types.  Text files,
> OO.org documents, PDF files, etc.
>
>> > What about SVN or GIT clients for Windows?
>>
>> Probably not an ideal mailing list for that question.
>
> True enough, though the server is Linux, so think of it in terms of "what
> solution works best with clients on all platforms" in that case.  I have
> Mac, PC/Win, and Linux clients.
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