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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Discover the last user in a group to edit a file? Post 302490997 by citaylor on Wednesday 26th of January 2011 11:02:05 AM
Old 01-26-2011
I would also go down the revision control system route, however I would recommend a centralized server system , like subversion or cvs or perforce...
This would have the pro's that Perderabo was talking about, but the file could be available across the enterprise, cutting out the issues with FTP and other file transfer methods. It would give you a versioned file that you could tell who editted last, it can be rolled back, and most importantly the file can be accessed on any system, including using GUI clients. For example we have people in documentation that need to update html documentation on our product. They dont know, and dont wish to know unix. So they use a GUI client called "tortoise svn". This plugs into the Windows Explorer, and they just change the files naturally on windows using their favourite editors, etc. Once they have finished their editing they commit the changes and they're done. On the unix side, then when we build the product we drag these files in (the line endings are automatically mapped from CRLF to native line endings), and build the product. If we need to make changes, we can change the html files with the editor of our choice on UNIX and commit them when required. If we find an error introduced, we can look at the revisions, see when, where and who introduced them, and correct it, or roll back the version of the file. The files can then be centrally protected using passwords and access control, and it can be centrally backed up. We do this for every file we produce - code, images and documentation. I hope this helps...
 

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svn-all-fast-export

SVN-ALL-FAST-EXPORT(1)					      General Commands Manual					    SVN-ALL-FAST-EXPORT(1)

NAME

       svn-all-fast-export - tool to convert svn repositories into git

SYNOPSIS

       svn-all-fast-export [options] [Path to subversion repository]

DESCRIPTION

       svn-all-fast-export is a tool to convert your svn repositories to git.

       You  will  need to have a copy of your svn repository and to write some rules to specify how the conversion will be done, for instance, you
       can manage how the tags and branches will be managed writing the appropriate  rules.  You  have	examples  in  /usr/share/doc/svn-all-fast-
       export/samples

       Path  to  subversion  repository is a backup copy of the subversion repository. Note that an svn url will not work due to the undistributed
       nature of svn.

OPTIONS

       --identity-map
	      Provide map between svn username and email. You can provide a file mapping the old svn accounts to the authors names. This file must
	      have a line per each svn account, you can use either the svn-all-fast-export native format:
	      janesvnaccountname Jane Doe <jane.doe@example.com>
	      or the git-svn format:
	      janesvnaccountname = Jane Doe <jane.doe@example.com>

       --revisions-file
	      Provide a file with revisions numbers that should be processed. This file should have one revision number per line.

       --rules
	      The rules file that determines what goes where. See /usr/share/doc/svn-all-fast-export/samples

       --add-metadata
	      If passed, each git commit will have svn commit info.

       --resume-from
	      Start importing at svn revision number.

       --max-rev
	      Stop importing at svn revision number.

       --dry-run
	      Don't actually write anything.

       --debug-rules
	      Print what rule is being used for each file.

       --commit-interval number
	      If passed the cache will be flushed to git every number of commits.

       --stats
	      After a run, print some statistics.

       --svn-branches
	      Use the content of SVN when creating branches, Note: SVN tags are branches as well.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

RETURN VALUES

       This program returns 0 on success, on error something else (numbers in base 10):
       10 unrecognized option or missing argument
       11 no rules file specified

BUGS

       All  matching  rules  need  to  end with a '/', else the tool will crash at some point. The only exception are the rules using the recurse-
       action.

HOMEPAGE

       http://gitorious.org/svn2git

SEE ALSO

       http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/MoveToGit/UsingSvn2Git

AUTHORS

       svn-all-fast-export was written by Thiago Macieira and Thomas Zander.

								  April 25, 2010					    SVN-ALL-FAST-EXPORT(1)
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