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Versions or Vaporware?

Versions, the GUI Mac subversion client is still vaporware, but there is a review of the prerelease beta at Theocacao. Though I am shifting over to Git, I am still curious how Versions will stack up against svnX.

2008 06 02 Mark Eli Kalderon Hybrid Application
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Versions

Subversion is a great command line utility waiting for decent GUI. While the GUI’s supplanting the command line represents the triumph of the Image over the Word, the GUI has its place—even in text editing. With respect to subversion, there’s cognitive utility in being able to visualize the structure of your repository or working copy. […]

2007 06 17 Mark Eli Kalderon Hybrid Application
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Subversion and the Single User

As promised, a post about subversion workflow, but first some basic concepts.

Commit

Remember being taught journalism in high school English class? A good story must provide answers to four questions: “Who?”, “What?”, “When?”, and “Where?” Or so we were taught.

When you commit a change, subversion records four pieces of information:

Subversion records WHO committed the change Subversion records […]

2007 04 14 Mark Eli Kalderon subversion
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Subversion

In my first post, I reported my discovery that a lot of tools that programmers use are, in fact, readily adaptable to the task of writing. In a previous post I discussed diff programs—programs for comparing differences between text files. In this post, I will be discussing version control.

Programmers and writers face at least one […]

2007 03 29 Mark Eli Kalderon Hybrid Application
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