Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-28 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:13 PM To: quills at airmail.net Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"? Scott a

Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
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 appl

RE: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread Syed.Hosain
...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Bodvar Bjorgvinsson Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 4:13 PM To: qui...@airmail.net Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"? Scott and Syed I

Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread Fred Ridder
23:12:40 + > Subject: Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"? > From: bodvar at gmail.com > To: quills at airmail.net > CC: framers at lists.frameusers.com > > Scott and Syed > > I have been using SVN/TortoiseSVN for some time now,

RE: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread Fred Ridder
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 curiou

Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
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 appl

Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread 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.

Re: Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-27 Thread quills
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.

Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-26 Thread syed.hos...@aeris.net
(Trying this again since my first two did not going through ... more than a few days now.) Hi, all. I often update specifications and documents (all get a new version number, etc.). Currently, I maintain these in separate folders for each version of a given spec. Basically, one folder contai

Has anyone used Subversion for FrameMaker "document control"?

2009-09-26 Thread Syed.Hosain
(Trying this again since my first two did not going through ... more than a few days now.) Hi, all. I often update specifications and documents (all get a new version number, etc.). Currently, I maintain these in separate folders for each version of a given spec. Basically, one folder cont