[ge-talk] file versioning

[Paul van Nugteren]

Try Wonderbrush : ) but your imagination is correct IMO, but the other
side is that undo/redo is start-finish, no branching, how would the sw
know how to redo, in what direction? It's the same thing with
subdirectories, which one you choose? There is no auto : )

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 15:12:08 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
said:
> well I have seen a graphical diff program but it would probably be too
> complex for video and I can't even imagine audio
> 
> This was my dream. In a photo app you have an undo history. Now every
> change would be saved as a new dot version. So now you have unlimited
> undo even after you close the file or send to someone else.
> You draw a triangle. then you think "maybe it will look better to draw
> a circle on the right or a square on the left. So you fork the file
> and have one branch with the circle and the other with the square. You
> decide the circle branch looks better so you continue with that and
> draw other other shapes. Later on you send the file with all the
> versions to your partner and she says 'you know, I really think it
> would be better with the square." So she follows the square branch,
> keeps the other shapes and changes and throws out the work on the
> circle to create a new image. Ah now that works.
> 
> On 1/21/07, Paul van Nugteren <pmvannugteren at eml.cc> wrote:
> > Sure, just be informed that binary files like images and such can't or
> > can't be easily diff'ed.
> >
> > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:39:20 -0500, "Ari Haviv" <arielbhaviv at gmail.com>
> > said:
> > > Most software developers are familiar with versioning systems such as
> > > CVS, Subversion or Mercurial. You maintain previous versions, you
> > > fork, you merge. What I'm thinking about and want to bring to the
> > > table is having this concept for any large project including documents
> > > and multimedia files. And it should be easy to use.
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