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

[Bill Ward]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Bill Ward wrote:
>
> > I left that vague because there are a lot of different types.  Text
> files,
> > OO.org documents, PDF files, etc.
>
> Well, that makes a big difference. Because it's hard to diff things
> like OO.org documents, VCSes have a hard time storing their history
> without ending up storing a copy of every single revision. If the
> files never change, no problem. But if they change a lot, often a
> problem.
>
> It sounds like you don't care about the history, but you haven't
> really said.


As I said in another message OOo docs are basically ZIP files containing XML
and other plaintext, so theoretically a clever VCS could diff them - wonder
if SVN does.  Anyway, no the history isn't that important and they don't
change terribly often - but it might be nice to be able to get back the last
one or two versions in case I screw something up at some point.  Mainly I'd
be using the tool to as a more convenient alternative to rsyncing the files
back and forth, in that case.  For other files (mainly code) the version
history is more important.  But really, aside from merges and things, how
often does anyone dig up an old version of something using a VCS ever?  I
know for me it's pretty darn rare - though nice to have on those few
occasions where it matters.
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