[Web4lib] managing files...

[Leslie Johnston]

I  have recently become a big fan of Subversion, and open-source file 
version control system <http://subversion.tigris.org/>.  We have web 
projects where 4 or 5 people have the ability to update files -- 
static html, perl scripts, xslt, css files --   and Subversion keeps 
us from overwriting each other's work.  A Subversion "repository" is 
set up on the server for the files, and each person with the right to 
work with the files uses client software -- I use Tortoise on my Win 
XP box -- can check out files, make changes, and commit the changes 
to the server.  It resolves conflict between multiple simultaneous 
updates quite nicely.

Leslie

At 05:05 PM 5/10/2006, Mark Gilman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I maintain several different websites of varying size and complexity.  In
>the case of the largest one, with thousands of pages and files, I do not
>have FTP access and must rely on an intermediary.  I tend to work fast,
>squeezing web development in amongst many other duties, and I am forever
>being mildly upbraided about setting image paths to the wrong folder,
>sending copies of image files that are already on the server and that sort
>of thing.  I have
>Frontpage and various free code editors, but not, say, Dreamweaver.  Lately,
>I've imported the entire site onto my local drive, so that I'm working on a
>clone, but I still worry about getting out of synch with what's online, and
>it's a bit of a pain to keep saving the source from the server to the local
>verisimilitude of the site.
>
>Anyone know of a better solution that doesn't rely upon FTP access?  The
>most annoying situations are when I do something like alter an image and
>forget to tell the intermediaries that, although it has the same name, it is
>a new image and does need to overwrite the existing one.  None of this is
>rocket science if one is only doing a couple changes at a time, but there
>are days when I'm making dozens of changes.  I guess what I hope to find is
>some kind of tool that does a better job of highlighting dependencies
>between files, generating a change log or something along that line.  Were I
>more disciplined I could probably figure out how to do this better with the
>tools in hand.
>
>Regards,
>Mark
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Leslie Johnston
Head, Digital Access Services
University of Virginia Library
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/das/
johnston at virginia.edu