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Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers?
occamboy writes My spouse works at a company that deals with lots of documents (Word, spreadsheets, scans, and so forth), and they have a classic version control problem that sucks up hours of her time each week. Documents are stored on a shared server in some sort of hierarchy, but there are all kinds of problems, e.g. multiple copies get saved with slightly-different names because people are afraid of overwriting the old version 'just in case' and nobody can figure out which is the latest version, or which got sent out to a client, etc.
Version control should help, and my first thought was to use SVN with TortoiseSVN, but I'm wondering if there's something even simpler that they could use? Do the Slashdotteratti have any experiences or thoughts that they could share? The ideal solution would also make it easy to text search the document tree.
Version control should help, and my first thought was to use SVN with TortoiseSVN, but I'm wondering if there's something even simpler that they could use? Do the Slashdotteratti have any experiences or thoughts that they could share? The ideal solution would also make it easy to text search the document tree.
Classic Slashdot is on "Offline Mode". Again. So I had to use Beta to post this. It's really hard to read light gray on white. I'm going blind from using this site. The moderation system is poorly supported. Which is the point of going to Slashdot to begin with. The comments. Otherwise I could just read an RSS feed. Reddit has become littered with lolcats and links to imgur much like what happened to Digg a couple of years back. So what's next?