Subversion for Writers. If you are a writer, and want a better way of versioning your files than saving old copies on your desktop check make sure to check that article out. It's a great step by step introduction to version control, geared to writers on OS X.
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Rachel Greenham - April 17, 2008 6:16 PM
Minor edit made to include a link (also here) to a simple .dmg-style Subversion installer for Mac OS X Tiger. Saves all that tedious messing about with fink or macports. :-)
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Simon Fodden - April 17, 2008 6:19 PM
There's a typo on the Subversion page: "then" should be "than."
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Rachel Greenham - April 18, 2008 4:13 AM
Where? All the 'then's seem to be correct to me...
There's a whole paragraph that's almost gibberish, that no-one's commented on yet. ;-) Going to try to reword that sometime.
Actually I can't find it myself now... oh well... :-)
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jesse - April 18, 2008 7:55 AM
I think the 'then' comment was directed at my blog post... I edited and fixed the problem... I think :)
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Stephen Lang - April 19, 2008 9:17 PM
This is really great, thanks Rachel for taking the time to write it.
For those less technically inclined, I happened to randomly come across this app not 30 minutes after I read Rachel's article-
http://www.timedrawer.com/
I'm sure this does no more, but just wanted to post it. No checking in and out, but it will automatically save a copy of your work (customizable settings, so you can restrict it to project folders, etc.) I also like the interface for comparing 2 different documents.
40 bones, but might be worth it. Right now I just manually create copies to intermittently archive work, which works reasonably fine. But the comparison feature sounds nice.
Thanks, Steve
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Rachel Greenham - April 20, 2008 6:29 AM
Hey, that looks pretty good.
I'll probably stick with Subversion because I also use it to sync between multiple machines and to provide read-only access to proofers and prereaders, but for the single-user, single-machine case, which is as far as my howto went, that looks brilliant.
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