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01/07/05: Revision-Control Outside of Collaborative Work

Keeping Your Life in Subversion by Joey Hess:

Revision control is great for collaborative projects and distributed projects. How well does it work for individuals? According to Joey Hess, fantastically. He's kept his home directory under revision control for years--here's how he does it with Subversion.

There is just something very cool about seeing your home directory as it was 2 years ago. I will be looking into this first for my Dawg Tag PHP script. Even though I am the only person working on it, Subversion can help me to keep my files organized. As it stands now, I have 2 seperate versions running all the time (with older versions archived). One exists for me to work on, and the other is where I roll the successful changes, always keeping it one step behind in case I really mess something up. From what I understand, revision-control can clean this up considerably. Once I become comfortable with it, I am sure I will start experimenting with it as Joey Hess has. A very cool prospect and a fine article.



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ThinkBlog wrote:

Your Life in Stepwise RevisionJoey Hess just published an article on how he's been keeping his home directory in some kind of version control system (CVS before, and now, Subversion) for five years now.

How many of us have carelessly either failed to back up—or have lost th...

01/17/05 20:18:08

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