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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-do

SVN-DO(1)							 Command reference							 SVN-DO(1)

NAME

       svn-do - export a source and run a command inside the source.

SYNOPSIS

       svn-do COMMAND

DESCRIPTION

       svn-do will use svn-buildpackage to export a source, run a command inside the exported source and, if the command succeeds, copy back the
       debian/ tree

EXAMPLES

       clean the tree (useful if this requires the full source tree)

	   $ svn-do debclean
	   I: Exporting source tree via svn-buildpackage...
	   [...]
	   I: Running command: debclean
	   [...]
	   I: Copying back the debian/ tree...
	   'debian/control' -> 'path/package/debian/control'

       use quilt to refresh a patch

	   $ QUILT_PATCHES=debian/patches svn-do 
	    sh -c "quilt push 002_static-linking-dont-build-perf.patch; 
	    quilt refresh"
	   [...]
	   I: Copying back the debian/ tree...
	   [...]
	   'debian/patches/002_static-linking-dont-build-perf.patch' ->
	   '/path/package/debian/patches/002_static-linking-dont-build-perf.patch'

       Start a source editing session and decide later not to copy back the debian/ tree

	   $ svn-do $SHELL
	   [...]
	   I: Running command: /bin/zsh
	   % exit 1
	   E: command exited with 1; not copying back the debian/ tree.

       edit a patch in a CDBS' simple-patchsys based package

	   $ svn-do cdbs-edit-patch 02_pmount.patch
	   [...]

SEE ALSO

       /usr/share/doc/svn-buildpackage/()
	   The svn-buildpackage HOWTO manual

       svn-inject(1)
	   puts a Debian source package into Subversion repository

       svn-upgrade(1)
	   upgrade source package from a new upstream revision

       svn(1)
	   Subversion command line client tool

       dpkg-buildpackage(1)
	   Debian source package tools

       lintian(1)
	   Debian package checker

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       Eduard Bloch
	   This manual page was written by Eduard Bloch in roff.

       Goneri Le Bouder
	   Converted manpages to SGML.

       Neil Williams
	   Converted manpages to DocBook XML and current Debian maintainer

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