[Sussex] Reinventing the wheel

[John Patrick]

Dominic,

Was actually asking the other John, but nice to know your solution as
well. So I assume your has registered users and that links them to
which git repo they upload into.

John

On 8 February 2012 16:41, Dominic Humphries <linux at oneandoneis2.org> wrote:
> External. Ish. The files can be edited by employees of client companies.
> That's one of the reasons we use git - it makes it pretty near
> impossible for them to delete or damage a file so badly we can't recover
> it back to a previously-good state.
>
> Each client has their own directory, can't edit someone else's files.
> All managed by one git repo tho.
>
> On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 16:30 +0000, John Patrick wrote:
>> 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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