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Version Control for Art
June 27, 2004 8:56 PM   RSS feed for this thread Subscribe

Look for a versioning control system (like cvs) for art/design work [More inside]

Ideally I would love something that uses WebDav transparently like Office does with Sharepoint, can be split up into client/project sections and will work in a mixed Mac/PC Office.
I like the look of Version Cue, but I'm also going to be doing stuff in Flash and Authorware so that's out. CVS seems to overly-complicated and cumbersome (plus I understand it does not handle binaries well). What else is there?
posted by X-00 to education (7 comments total)
I haven't used it, but from what I've read Subversion (CVS's replacement) acts as a Webdav server. It allowing users to browse the current tree with any webdav client (IE5+/Nautilus). If they've got a Subversion client they can pull out old copies.
posted by holloway at 11:47 PM on June 27, 2004


Yeah, you heard me, "it allowing"... and don't me be not unallowing I for chances few, skeletor!
posted by holloway at 11:49 PM on June 27, 2004


i use subversion for some of my programming projects and have to say that i love it. the command line stuff is easy to use. there are guis that you can use for it, if you are into that sort of thing. and you can simply use your web browser to view the contents of your repository, or you can use something like viewcvs to spruce things up a bit and show the dates of last revisions and the like. big recommendation for subversion. it's great.
posted by chrisroberts at 6:44 AM on June 28, 2004


Big ups for subversion. We (after much yelling and screaming by me and my cadre) recently switched from visual source safe to SVN at work, and it has been a pure unalloyed joy.

The only baddness is that svn uses up a lot of disk space on the client side. It keeps an extra copy of all versioned files. This isn't a big deal with source code, but if you're dealing with a whole lot of multi-megabyte art files, it could get problematic.
posted by Capn at 10:47 AM on June 28, 2004


These all seem like techy coder tools being, erm, subverted for other purposes. Is there anything custom-made for, well, mac-types?
posted by bonaldi at 12:33 PM on June 28, 2004


You might want to check out Vault.
posted by cmicali at 2:23 PM on June 28, 2004


Think I may have found an answer: Slide.
Thanks everybody!
posted by X-00 at 3:06 PM on June 28, 2004


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