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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 3 of 3)

It’s such a lie to call this Part III. Feels like part 33, but I wanted to close out with a couple of final notes.
There’s only three:

1. DO NOT PUT EVERYTHING UNDER REVISION CONTROL

Really, it’s a bad idea. Everyone will make up different rules about this, but no matter what not everything should be placed [...]

Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.6b of 3)

Branching. You haven’t really used Subversion until you have branched something.


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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.6a of 3)

A final few notes for now. This part deals with Subversion’s revision numbering, and how to access previously stored versions of a saved document.


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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.5 of 3)

Part 5 is here. I’ve been having problems with my free hosting at openomy, but no matter I now have my own server running. When I get Apache up and running, I’ll host my stuff over there. For now, the video below comes directly from YouTube. Bad quality, but still does the job.
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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.4 of 3)

And here we cover “Checking in” and “Checking out” files. Silly me, since I haven’t been scripting these, you’ll notice in the beginning I say this one will be, “The shortest video so far.” Hah! and oops.
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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.3 of 3)

Part 2.3: Organization
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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.2 of 3)

Part 2.2: time to make your repository.
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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 2.1 of 3)

It’s here, the first part of ?? parts about Subversion revision control “at home” use. I recommend viewing the full screen video by clicking the full screen button in the lower right of the video window, located to the left of the volume control.
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Open Source Life: Subversion, a revision control system (part 1 of 3)

Free, Open-Source Revision Control System
Current Homepage: http://subversion.tigris.org/
Developed by: CollabNet
I’m presenting this article in a slightly different structure than my previous Open Source Life articles. This is part 1 of 3. Part 3 will be my opinion of Subversion. Part 2 will be a step by step walk through of using Subversion, with lots of pictures [...]

Open Source Life: TrueCrypt, data security

Free Open-Source On-The-Fly Encryption
Current Homepage: http://www.truecrypt.org
Created by: The TrueCrypt Foundation
Abstract
TrueCrypt offers those that want to protect their personal data some peace of mind. TrueCrypt allows any user to create an encrypted “virtual hard drive” with no more than the TrueCrypt application and some free diskspace. Accompanied with a modicum of common sense, the data stored [...]