Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 09:45:22 -0500 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dummie question: The versioning system Message-ID: <3E5B8182.70401@potentialtech.com> References: <3E5B2C97.4000608@intersonic.se>
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Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wondering what type of versioning is used for various documents in > many *nix OS's. For instance, > "# $FreeBSD: src/etc/master.passwd,v 1.25.2.5.2.1 2002/07/16 12:33:21 > des Exp $" > > Is this something that could be used for an office enviroment or just > for developing software? The software is CVS, which is used in many, many software development projects. www.cvshome.org CVS is designed with special features for tracking versions within text files (such as C source code) and does an excellent job not only of keeping versions, but allowing one to see the progress as changes are made. CVS is not so good at tracking changes in non-text files (such as images, OpenOffice documents, etc) but can still do so. You maintain versioning, but CVS is unable to understand the content of the file, thus it can't give you the changes from version 1.15 to 1.16 or insert version strings in the document (as you see above). Hope this helps. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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