version/revision control software for things mostly not source

[Gene]

On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 18:08:49 +0300, 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.
> 

> 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.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> - Sincerely,
> Dan Naumov

Someone else mentioned Subversion and Tortoisesvn. I use these tools for
revision management of 600 or so powerpoints, graphics, and other
miscellaneous files that we use for church services. Once up and running, it's
simplicity itself. I also use websvn to allow read only access to individual
files via a browser. I've found it works like a charm.


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IHN,
Gene

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