[ale] GUI for working on a remote Subversion workspace?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Thu Jun 13 10:52:15 EDT 2013


This is why my original reply suggested a more robust VCS. Let the
users checkout the project to their own computers and coordinate their
efforts amongst their own repositories before submitting back to the
central repository.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> James,
>
> James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> But I don't understand what you're trying to do.  What exactly do you
>>> mean by "managing a remote subversion workspace"?  Remote as opposed to
>>> what?
>>
>> I think he is wanting the users to work on a remote checked out copy
>> of the project.
>
> [ after fixing your top-posting... ]
>
> So the *checkout* is remote to them, as opposed to them checking it out
> locally on their own machines from a remote repository?  If so, then how
> would you prevent multiple users from overwriting each others' work, or
> potentially committing other people's work?
>
> -derek


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