No. We have three change control systems: a home grown one called
HOPE, the open source CVS and a commercial one called Perforce.
Perforce is the better system. We did comparisons a while ago and it's
the one to go for. Far easier to use and maintain. See
http://www.perforce.com/perforce/pvcs.html
Programmers usually hate change control but, for multiple concurrent
users who are continually committing changes to a project, it's the
way to get things done. Each of the three CCSs feed our build
distribution system, which I also, umm, keep going.
CCSs are hard to grasp even when we try and explain it very very
slowly multiple times, particularly about trunk and branches. Trunk is
the main line of development, a series of consecutive changes. A
branch is another series of consecutive changes starting at a change
in the trunk or another branch. If you've gotten this far and a
tumbleweed hasn't just blown past you, maybe you'd like a job?
Roger
On 9/5/05, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Do you use PVCS Roger?
> I hate the damned thing, or at least the way it's been set up for our use at work.
>
> Roger
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Day" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 8:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Email for Posterity
>
>
> That's the one. Abiword has a few more options. The buzz-phrase for my
> job is "change-control".
>
> Roger
>
> On 9/5/05, Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Quoth Roger Day:
> >
> > <<
> > Under Abiword[1], it's under Tools>Document History and
> > Tools>Revision. It keeps a full list of changes, each change being a
> > different colour, and you can revert to any previous state.
> > >>
> >
> > In Word, go to the TOOLS menu.
> > Activate "Track Changes".
> > On left end of the bar, you can toggle between the "final" version or one
> > which shows the revisions.
> >
> > Was this what you were thinking of, Roger?
> >
> > Even if not, it's rather sweet!
> >
> > Robin
> >
>
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