[Sussex] Reinventing the wheel

[John Patrick]

Is the website internal or external?

Are users internal or external? i.e. anonymous public, registered
public, registered trusted, employees?

Is it a shared folder or registered user specific folder?

Just thinking about what other solutions might be useful based upon
those details...

On 8 February 2012 16:04, Dominic Humphries <linux at oneandoneis2.org> wrote:
> We do something vaguely similar where I work. We use Git - every time a
> file is uploaded via the website, it gets added/updated to the git repo.
> Each git commit has a unique SHA and a trackable history, we can even
> use it to show previous versions of files if they want to revert to
> them.
>
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 15:36 +0000, John Crowhurst wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I wonder if you could help by pointing me in the right direction.
>>
>> I have a customer that wants to implement version control on his website
>> so that when users upload files and folders they are copied elsewhere
>> into another folder and compared to see if they have changed, and the
>> changed files get tagged with a number for version control.
>>
>> I'm sure there is a much better way to do this, such as checking in the
>> files to CVS or similar.
>>
>> Can anyone advise?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> John
>>
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