From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 25 8: 8: 6 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43F0A37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:08:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mired.org (ip68-97-54-220.ok.ok.cox.net [68.97.54.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FF2143FAF for ; Tue, 25 Feb 2003 08:08:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm-dated-1046621283.05f6e4@mired.org) Received: (qmail 16730 invoked from network); 25 Feb 2003 16:08:03 -0000 Received: from localhost.mired.org (HELO guru.mired.org) (127.0.0.1) by localhost.mired.org with SMTP; 25 Feb 2003 16:08:03 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15963.38115.203619.619990@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 10:08:03 -0600 To: "Per olof Ljungmark" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dummie question: The versioning system In-Reply-To: <3E5B2C97.4000608@intersonic.se> References: <3E5B2C97.4000608@intersonic.se> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`; h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: Mike Meyer X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.70 (Pensive) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In <3E5B2C97.4000608@intersonic.se>, Per olof Ljungmark typed: > 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 $" That's CVS. > Is this something that could be used for an office enviroment or just > for developing software? It can be reasonably used on anything that stores files as plain text documents. So the answer depends on your office environment. If you're using one of the XML-based office systems, you can use it with some success. If you're still using a system that stores data in binary files, it'll work - but isn't nearly as useful. I've had very good experiences using Perforce - which I perfer to CVS - to store system configuration files. http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message