[Noisebridge-discuss] Version control

[Asheesh Laroia]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2009, Matt Peterson wrote:

> My music files don't change enough to warrant checking in - do you remix most 
> of your audio files often?

I see Subversion as an aggressively-caching network filesystem. (That's 
how my mom uses it, too.)

I used to use AFS for this, but after years of frustration I realized 
Subversion was a better plan.

My music files generally change when I fix historic tag corruption and 
then want to push the updates to all my other machines.

(I also use scord <http://scord.sourceforge.net/> to avoid the famous 
"text-base penalty.")

> I do find such systems very popular in network and site operations work. 
> For example, I tend to setup simple 'poke SNMP, dump to TFTP, push into 
> SVN' systems that auto-fro-magically keep track of router 
> configurations, load balancers and other bits that get twiddled.

The Debian tool etckeeper is kind of like that, and is really rather neat.

-- Asheesh.

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