[Owncloud] Suggestions

[iberlynx]

Sorry if I'm not being clear enough but by standing corrected and suggesting duchain-like system I'm obviously, IMHO, dropping the suggestion of using git, and am analysing the problem and how I think the best tool would behave like.


On Thursday 15 July 2010 08:26:58 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Thursday 15 July 2010, iberlynx wrote:
> > I stand corrected.
> > 
> > What about my suggestion of only locking locally within a couple of words
> > of other user's editing? And about using a duchain-like structure aware
> > system?
> > And about block formatting changes that span over other users changes,
> > giving those 3 choices?
> It seems to me that you are trying to fit the tool to solve the problem, which 
> is a wrong approach because it will leads you to add work around to work 
> around. It would be better to analyse the problem and then find the best tool. 
> 
> However, there is a very simple way to test the idea of using git for 
> collaborative editing of text and odf file. You can easily simulate an editing 
> session, and conflict. In KWord (and I think OOWriter too) you can save a ODF 
> document to a directory, that you can then put under revision control by git. 
> If you use several KWord instance, saving to different repository, and then 
> manually push between the different git repository, you should be able to test 
> different editing scenarios and see what works, and what does not.
> 
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