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From: Paul Hughett <hughett@mercur.uphs.upenn.edu> Subject: Re: CVS for Lawyers? Date: 25 Aug 2000 18:01:23 GMT : I am interested in the topic of version control, not for software : development, but for the production of other documents, such as legal : documents or editing for online publications. : Can CVS be used for this? If so, could you point me to some website or : other source of information dealing particularly for howto use CVS for such : non-software development purposes. I use CVS to maintain articles that I'm writing for publication, and grant proposals that I'm preparing for submission; they are text files just like program source files and there are no essential differences as far as CVS is concerned, assuming that your word processor is well-behaved. This, however, might be a problem. I customarily use TeX, for which the text files are plain ASCII and small changes to the text correspond to small changes to the file; as I understand it, this is not true of most proprietary word processing programs, so you might have a problem there. You can solve one problem by treating these files as binary, but the other means that taking diffs between versions of a file will not give useful results. Paul Hughett x-uunet-gateway: wodc7mr0.ffx.ops.us.uu.net from info-cvs to gnu.cvs.help; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 19:57:05 GMT Message-ID: <39A6CF53.998E25E3@ces.com> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 14:56:03 -0500 From: "David H. Thornley" <David.Thornley@ces.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: CVS for Lawyers? References: <007501c00ed4$7e7c39e0$02010101@duncan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Newsgroups: gnu.cvs.help Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!skynet.be!news.csl-gmbh.net!newsfeed2.news.nl.uu.net!sun4nl!ams.uu.net!ffx.uu.net!spool1.news.uu.net!wendy-fate.uu.net!info-cvs === From: "Duncan Kinder" <dckinder@mountain.net> Subject: CVS for Lawyers? Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:38:53 -0700 Hi. I am interested in the topic of version control, not for software development, but for the production of other documents, such as legal documents or editing for online publications. Can CVS be used for this? If so, could you point me to some website or other source of information dealing particularly for howto use CVS for such non-software development purposes. Duncan C. Kinder dckinder@mountain.net x-uunet-gateway: wodc7mr0.ffx.ops.us.uu.net from info-cvs to gnu.cvs.help; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 03:44:21 GMT Message-ID: <016001c00f28$de2a5a80$02010101@duncan> Reply-To: "Duncan Kinder" <dckinder@mountain.net> From: "Duncan Kinder" <dckinder@mountain.net> References: <007501c00ed4$7e7c39e0$02010101@duncan> <39A6CF53.998E25E3@ces.com> Subject: Re: CVS for Lawyers? Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:41:53 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Newsgroups: gnu.cvs.help Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!ams.uu.net!ffx.uu.net!spool1.news.uu.net!wendy-fate.uu.net!info-cvs === To: <info-cvs@gnu.org> > > > Duncan Kinder wrote: > > > > Hi. > > > > I am interested in the topic of version control, not for software > > development, but for the production of other documents, such as legal > > documents or editing for online publications. > > > CVS works best on text files separated into lines, as these allow > it to store the changes efficiently. If you can define a change as > removal of certain lines and addition of certain other lines, and > two changes to the same file that do not directly conflict can > probably be applied together, then CVS is useful. > > So, whether CVS is useful depends on the type of files you use. > If you use .doc files or some other binary format, then CVS is > no more than a manager that can be used for on-line backup and > restore. If you use a text-based formatting tool like LaTeX (or > other TeX) or *roff, then CVS should be able to manage your > documents very nicely. > x-uunet-gateway: sjc3sosrv11.alter.net from info-cvs to gnu.cvs.help; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 07:12:54 GMT Reply-To: Guus.Leeuw@t-online.de From: Guus.Leeuw@t-online.de (Guus Leeuw) Subject: RE: CVS for Lawyers? Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 09:13:18 +0200 Message-ID: <000701c00f2d$1c8b2580$0200a8c0@netherlands> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 X-Sender: 02261790070-0001@t-dialin.net Newsgroups: gnu.cvs.help Path: nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!nntp.twtelecom.net!uunet!ffx.uu.net!spool1.news.uu.net!wendy-fate.uu.net!info-cvs === From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) Subject: Re: CVS for Lawyers? Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 22:43:36 GMT On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:41:53 -0700, Duncan Kinder <dckinder@mountain.net> wrote: >So it would work for html? Yes, CVS would work for HTML. Though if you are generating the HTML from some other tool you really want to be track the storage files that are used by that tool; you rarely want to put machine generated code into CVS, but nearly always the human-created product. -- Any hyperlinks appearing in this article were inserted by the unscrupulous operators of a Usenet-to-web gateway, without obtaining the proper permission of the author, who does not endorse any of the linked-to products or services.