[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

[Andrew Atkinson]

Bruce

If you have beginners, I personally would stick to one that does have a 
central record somewhere, if you want to support decentralised systems 
fine, but set it up in a way that the beginners can just log onto the 
'central' record and have to 'commit' every change. I have now tried 
using SVN with at least 3 sets of caving data. Trying to get people to 
understand a simple update and commit routine is hard enough, without 
the decentralised options, that I also find confusing. I would only go 
down that route for expeditions where it is difficult/impossible to talk 
to the central.

If you need it I have a document showing beginner windows users how to 
set up tortoiseSVN, but it is a few years only now, so the pictures are 
certainly not the correct ones

Andrew