Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker document control?
As long as you use binary files you will not be able to get differenced files. Subversion is similar to CVS. It handles text files very well and will difference them, just like CVS. If you don't use text files, and all of your FM files are binary, then you will maintain a separate copy of each. Thus no space savings. Scott syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: It would be good to have a system that maintains the differences for me and minimizes the number of duplicate files. As it happens, we are considering changing to use Subversion for our source code control system (see www.collabnet.com http://www.collabnet.com for more info) in our software development group ... the earlier RCS stuff did not work well for me for FrameMaker documents. Hence my questions: 1. Has anyone ever used Subversion for FrameMaker document control (to maintain multiple versions of documents) purposes? 2. How well does it handle non-text FrameMaker binary files (like .book and .fm files)? 3. How much did you like or dislike it? 4. Would you recommend something else (instead of subversion) for this purpose? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker document control?
Scott and Syed I have been using SVN/TortoiseSVN for some time now, and curiously enough, it handles binary files well and seems to keep changes to them rather than add separate issues of changed files. However SVN has no knowledge of how to interpret the binary text files into text from most applications, but with FrameMaker, that is no problem as FM has its own comparison tool My ten months experience says four thumbs up. Only take time to carefully organize your file structure before you begin any serious work with the SVN. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson 2009/9/27 qui...@airmail.net: As long as you use binary files you will not be able to get differenced files. Subversion is similar to CVS. It handles text files very well and will difference them, just like CVS. If you don't use text files, and all of your FM files are binary, then you will maintain a separate copy of each. Thus no space savings. Scott syed.hos...@aeris.net wrote: It would be good to have a system that maintains the differences for me and minimizes the number of duplicate files. As it happens, we are considering changing to use Subversion for our source code control system (see www.collabnet.com http://www.collabnet.com for more info) in our software development group ... the earlier RCS stuff did not work well for me for FrameMaker documents. Hence my questions: 1. Has anyone ever used Subversion for FrameMaker document control (to maintain multiple versions of documents) purposes? 2. How well does it handle non-text FrameMaker binary files (like .book and .fm files)? 3. How much did you like or dislike it? 4. Would you recommend something else (instead of subversion) for this purpose? ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as bod...@gmail.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/bodvar%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Life is not only a game--it is also a dance on roses. --Fleksnes (Rolv Wesenlund) ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker document control?
I largely agree with Bodvar's comments. One of the development groups I work with keeps all the FrameMaker files in an SVN repository and it has largely been trouble-free. The only problems have come when users have failed to check for locks before starting to edit a file or have failed to lock a file while they are working on it. Most of us use the SyncroSVN client, which does not display locks by default--you have to direct the client to check for locks before you start to edit, and not everybody remembers to do this every time. -Fred Ridder Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:12:40 + Subject: Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker document control? From: bod...@gmail.com To: qui...@airmail.net CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com Scott and Syed I have been using SVN/TortoiseSVN for some time now, and curiously enough, it handles binary files well and seems to keep changes to them rather than add separate issues of changed files. However SVN has no knowledge of how to interpret the binary text files into text from most applications, but with FrameMaker, that is no problem as FM has its own comparison tool My ten months experience says four thumbs up. Only take time to carefully organize your file structure before you begin any serious work with the SVN. HTH, Bodvar Bjorgvinsson ___ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
