version control

Thursday, April 30, 2009
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Flashbake Automates Version Control For (Nerdy) Writers

2:00AM Gina Trapani | Save snapshots of frequently-updated files over time with programmer-strength version control—but without the learning curve. Free software Flashbake captures working files and adds details like the weather and your Twitter status to each version automatically. More »
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Monday, April 21, 2008

Save Every Edit with Subversion for Writers

3:00AM Adam Pash | Writer Rachel Greenham details how she takes advantage of version control tool Subversion—primarily used by software devlopers—to manage her writing projects. We’ve covered how to set up a Subversion server and how to use Subversion with TortoiseSVN (Windows) in the past, but Greenham’s post has a Mac focus using previously mentioned SCPlugin. If you’re a writer working in Windows, our TortoiseSVN guide will be a nice companion to Greenham’s post. If you’ve used Subversion for non-coding purposes or you want to share your SVN experiences, let’s hear about them in the comments. Subversion For Writers [Strange Noises via TUAW] More »
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Saturday, October 20, 2007

Time-Machine Your SVN Project with SvnTimeLapseView

5:00AM Adam Pash | Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): Free, cross platform application SvnTimeLapseView downloads every revision of a file from your Subversion repository and scrolls through revisions with a simple slider, highlighting differences in blue. If you’re not familiar with the benefits of version control (especially for people who live in text), check out our guide to setting up a home subversion server for a better idea of what it does and whether Subversion might be useful for you. If you decide Subversion is up your alley, Windows users should also check out how to use TortoiseSVN with Subversion. SvnTimeLapseView is free, works on Windows, Mac, and Linux (or any platform that runs Java). SvnTimeLapseView [Google Code] More »
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