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Re: [Samba] SVN/CVS-like share for Samba users?

Subject: Re: [Samba] SVN/CVS-like share for Samba users?
From: Tomasz Chmielewski
Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 17:11:24 +0100
John H Terpstra schrieb:
On Thursday 22 December 2005 08:24, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

I am looking for some solution, working with Samba preferably, which
would allow multiple users to work on one document.

This means that if a user makes a change to the document, a previous
version of that document is saved somewhere else.

For example, user A opens a document (rw - read/write, ro - read-only
document):

rw \\server\share\document.txt

User makes some changes, and saves it to the same place.

This SVN/CVS-like share handles the change inteligently, and makes a
copy of the previous file to a ro file somewhere else:

ro \\server\share\backup\2005.12.22-16:24:04\document.txt


Do you have something in mind which would allow me to do something like
that *transparently* to the user (assuming the user doesn't know much
more about computers than opening Word document etc.)?


http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba3-ByExample.pdf

Folks, please refer all who ask deployment related questions to the "Samba-3 By Example book", not "The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide".

Hmm? Have you actually read my original post?

There is no single occurance of (document) "versioning" nor "version control" in the whole Samba-3 by Example. And "version controlling" is mentioned only briefly in the HOWTO where shadow_copy is described (with "do not use for version controlling" in bold).


When you send a novice to read the HOWTO, it's like telling them to practice for running a marathon before they can walk. It's like telling them to read a mechanic's guide before they know what is a car.

Same happens when a "real proffessional" can't read more than half of the subject of one's post...


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Tomek

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