On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Eli Marmor wrote:
> Recently, subversion has become a serious competitor for CVS. It is
> Open Source, based on the DAV protocol, implemented on Apache with the
> Open Source mod_dav protocol, and together with the DeltaV extensions
> it offers a full networked versioning control environment.
>
I have had some experience with Subversion, and I can highly recommend it.
(caveat emptor: I did not stress test it). Subversion supports binary
files much better than CVS, but I don't know if it is possible to merge MS
Office documents using common version control operations.
> But...
> Surprisingly, there is a very strong support for DAV from...
> ..Microsoft!
>
> It may surprise, but all the recent versions of Microsoft products, not
> only relevant ones (like FrontPage) but also Office and IE, have
> internal support for DAV.
>
> So Ithink that subversion+DAV is the ultimative answer in this
> specific case.
>
DAV does not have too much to do with it. With either CVS or Subversion
you can commit and checkout documents to and from the repository using
explicit commands.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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