From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 17:37:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978C21065673 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:37:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (gate6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B048FC14 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seedling.black-earth.co.uk (seedling.black-earth.co.uk [81.187.76.163]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o3HHbAsj053566 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:37:10 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Message-ID: <4BC9F1C6.8090803@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:37:10 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman Organization: Infracaninophile User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Naumov References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96 at happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_ALL, SPF_FAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: version/revision control software for things mostly not source X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:37:16 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 17/04/2010 16:08:49, Dan Naumov wrote: > I think I am reaching the point where I want to have some kind of sane > and easy to use version/revision control software for my various > personal files and small projects. We are talking about varied kind of > data, ranging from binary format game data (I have been doing FPS > level design as a hobby for over a decade) to .doc office documents to > ASCI text formatted game data. Most of the data is not plaintext. So > far I have been using a hacked together mix of things, mostly a > combination of essentially storing each revision of any given file a > separate file001, file002, file003, etc which while easy to use and > understand, seems rather space-inefficient and a little bit of ZFS > snapshotting, however I want something better. > > What would be examples of good version control software for me? The > major things I want are: a simple and easy to use Windows GUI client > for my workstation, so I can quickly browse through different > projects, go back to any given point in time and view/checkout the > data of that point to a Windows machine. Space efficiency, while not > critical (the server has 2 x 2TB drives in RAID1 and can easily be > expanded down the line should the need eventually arise) is obviously > an important thing to have, surely even with binary data some space > can be saved if you have 20 versions of the same file with minor > changes. > > Sadly, FreeBSD's ZFS doesn't have dedup or this functionality would've > been easy to implement with my current hacked together methods. > Performance does't matter all that much (unless we are talking > something silly like a really crazy IO bottleneck), since the only > expected user is just me and perhaps a few friends. I'd recommend subversion for this -- configure it using HTTPS and with Apache's basic auth for access control. Use ViewVC for exploting your repos via the web -- if you take care to set appopriate MIME types as properties, then your browser should open files in the appropriate applications automatically. [Verb. Sap. ViewVC looks pretty ugly in the default view, but set template_dir=templates-contrib/viewsvn/templates in viewvc.conf for a much better result] Subversion is a big and complex beast, but the documentation is excellent. There's a whole book you can download here: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/svn-book.pdf For access from Windows, try TortoiseSVN. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvJ8cYACgkQ8Mjk52CukIw1sgCdGZhmhRs+MpPeL+ySuROihznh dgIAn0KU7pf88IQkxrx3aZLKc2ABDi1x =yxTX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----