[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

[Aaron Birenboim]

Andrew Atkinson wrote:
> 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.

I have had that experience.
Getting people to use SVN is hard enough.

I'd say that to get it to work, the easiest path might
be https+svn.  (password protected)
Getting people to use ssh can be an uphill battle.

But somebody needs to host the repository.
Using a public service may not be a good idea for survey data.

          aaron

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