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1. Bradley M. Kuhn

   This might be a pointless question but:How do other hackers out there deal w/ working w/ (non-technical) ppl who don't grok version control?

   Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:33:26 UTC from web
   • Karsten Wade

     @bkuhn Don't grok version control even after you compare it to "track changes"/"redlining" in MS Word? And other such nonsense analogies?

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:36:23 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Karsten Wade

     @quaid, ppl whose default behavior is email new versions of documents back & forth rather than any VC at all. Is Oo.o track change any good?

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:38:00 UTC
   • Gabriel Saldana

     @bkuhn we punch them in the face :P

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:39:22 UTC
   • Karsten Wade

     @bkuhn OO.o track change is like a layered diff, but it can only go so far before it's confusing. I still increment ver num in filenames :(

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:40:31 UTC
   • Gabriel Saldana

     @bkuhn i still have to deal with programmers who don't grok version control!

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:40:43 UTC
   • Christopher Allan Webber

     @bkuhn http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/LinuxFileManagerIntegrationStatus and etc... see if you can get it integrated w/ nautilus

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:41:23 UTC
   • Bradley M. Kuhn Christopher Allan Webber

     @cwebber, nice, although similar things for SVN (which I'm stuck w/ in some places) are extremely buggy. Also, DVCS might confuse even more.

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:44:29 UTC
   • Gabriel Saldana

     @bkuhn non technical people lock up SVN repositories quite often in my experience. Git has proven a lot easier for vc newbies

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:56:03 UTC
   • Basilio Briceño Gabriel Saldana

     @gabrielsaldana indeed :)

     Tuesday, 08-Dec-09 22:59:10 UTC
   • Luis R. Rodriguez

     @bkuhn re: dealing with non-technical folks who can't grok version control. Would gitweb be good answer? Works for me.

     Wednesday, 09-Dec-09 00:32:38 UTC
   • Chad McCullough

     @bkuhn oh, boy...don't even get me started....seriously.

     Wednesday, 09-Dec-09 01:27:43 UTC
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   • Bradley M. Kuhn Chad McCullough

     @chadmccullough, that's how I'm starting to feel. New solution: export OO.o→ASCII;check in each emailed version;only making my changes there

     Wednesday, 09-Dec-09 20:36:58 UTC
   • Chad McCullough

     @bkuhn that sounds like a good plan, actually.

     Wednesday, 09-Dec-09 20:40:27 UTC
   • Jan Wildeboer

     @bkuhn good to see that MSFT now GPLed the download tool.

     Thursday, 10-Dec-09 05:30:23 UTC
   • Thomas Uhl Jan Wildeboer

     RT @jwildeboer: @bkuhn good to see that MSFT now GPLed the download tool.

     Thursday, 10-Dec-09 06:46:49 UTC