inkscape and version control/document management
Anyone using Inkscape with CVS or any other version control or document (CVS/Subversion) management system (WebDAV) on a regular basis?
To rephrase I am wondering if anyone is checking their SVG documents into a version control system (VCS) of some kind?
The reason I ask is I have noticed a trend of requests asking for various advanced Save and Undo features. The task seems like it would be better served by using a document manage system of some kind, and I suspect it may there may be users doing something similar already.
I know Adobe includes WebDAV support to provide some basic document management. I also vaguely recall Gnome VFS can be built to include support for various file systems including ones like WebDAV but I do not know if anyone is secrectly using Inkscape with Gnome VFS and WebDAV enabled.
I am hoping that if people are already using document management systems or more complicated options such as checking all their files into CVS then we might be able to discuss it here. Afterwards summarising it in the Wiki might help users make the most of the features Inkscape already has rather than attempting more awkward approaches involving undo histories or autosave features.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Glossary of Jargon: Version Control System (VCS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Version_control_system Document Management System (DMS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system WebDAV, Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV
Further to my previous message I noticed something relevant on the Roadmap for milestone 11/inkscape 0.45 http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap "WebDAV/FTP support via GNOME-VFS, Neon, or the like"
I am still interested to know what techiniques people might already be using.
At the moment I've checked all of my inkscape documents into my giant svn repository, and sometimes I do a side-by-side comparison with two different versions to see what changed.
That said, I guess what I really want is a "svg diff" type of tool, because while I can certainly do an xml-diff, that's not too useful.
But I'm not sure if the people wanting more advanced undo capabilities (say, across saves) and those using version control are one and the same. I personally believe that everyone should use version control for everything, but unfortunately a lot of the version control tools have a steep-enough learning curve to scare people away, and a lot of documents (such as everything from MS) don't play well with external version control.
...Eric
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 21:18 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
Further to my previous message I noticed something relevant on the Roadmap for milestone 11/inkscape 0.45 http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Roadmap "WebDAV/FTP support via GNOME-VFS, Neon, or the like"
I am still interested to know what techiniques people might already be using.
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 21:09 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
Anyone using Inkscape with CVS or any other version control or document (CVS/Subversion) management system (WebDAV) on a regular basis?
I use git to manage all of my art projects; SCM integration like that provided by some IDEs would be useful for me, although I've not had time to sit down and write up a good RFE yet.
-mental
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 17:30 -0400, Eric Jonas wrote:
That said, I guess what I really want is a "svg diff" type of tool, because while I can certainly do an xml-diff, that's not too useful.
Part of the senior project that I'm sponsoring this year is to make such a tool. It won't start until the fall, but I'll make sure to ask them to post release notices here. (or, you're welcome to join the mailing lists once they become active and suggest ideas)
--Ted
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