Subversion for design files: can we do better?

Mark J. Norton markjnorton at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 4 09:58:58 EDT 2012


On 9/4/2012 9:40 AM, James W. Yoon wrote:

Speaking as a fan of SVN over GIT:

> - difficult for two or more designers to work on the same file at the same time
The idea is to control who is actively working on a file.  While some 
might consider that a difficulty, other would consider it part of the 
work flow.

> - difficult to use if you don't have an svn client
To be fair, you neet a GIT client to clone work spaces, etc.

> - difficult to link to from the wiki, emails, etc. (direct links spew out the file as text)
I would think that a link to a file in svn WOULD show the file as text.

- Mark Norton



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