[lug] Seeking recommendations for revision control

[Harris, James]

Well, it sounds like RCS and CVS are both being recommended.  I had
discounted CVS because I thought it was a bit overkill, but, I'll dig into
both.  I'll also consider the wrapper script idea.

Thanks everyone for your feedback.  I'll go ahead and read up on the
recommended solutions.  It sounds like RCS is being the most recommended, so
I'll dig the furthest into it beforehand.

I appreciate all of your help!

-----Original Message-----
From: rm at mamma.varadinet.de [mailto:rm at mamma.varadinet.de]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 10:58
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Seeking recommendations for revision control


Why don't you use rcs? It sounds like this is exactly the
tool you would want to use -- it does revision control (with
checkout of older versions), file locking, access control etc.
You could also use CVS for this (i use it for most of my server
configuration files) but you would need to set it up so concurrent
access is disabled.

 Ralf

On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 09:52:40AM -0600, Harris, James wrote:
> That actually sounds like the perfect solution.  There's only three of us
> who are doing the edits, but we've had to do hundreds of edits a day
> (company merger) and we're getting tired of file locking via yelling
through
> the walls of our cubes.  :-)
> 
> Is that wrapper script something you'd be willing to share?  The concept
is
> simple enough that I could probably kick something out, but I'm always
open
> to not reinventing the wheel.
> 
> I'd appreciate it enormously.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Duehr [mailto:nate at natetech.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 21:24
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Seeking recommendations for revision control
> 
> Never seen one pre-written for locking zone files, etc.  We wrote our
> own Perl wrapper scripts around editing stuff and we touch a lock file
> when someone else is doing something (like editing /etc/named.conf) that
> would break things if two people are doing it... called the script
> "vinamed" for example... checks for lockfile, writes lockfile, starts vi
> on the appropriate file, when you save and exit cleans up the lockfile.
> Probably has race conditions, but seems to work with a limited number of
> people.
> 
> -- 
> Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com>
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