Just a sample of the Echomail archive
Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.
|    POINTS    |    Point usage discussion and systems suppo    |    3,070 messages    |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
|    Message 2,452 of 3,070    |
|    Martin Foster to August Abolins    |
|    de.komm.software.kreuzungspunkt    |
|    25 Mar 21 11:38:00    |
      MSGID: 2:310/31.3@fidonet eec22ad0       REPLY: 1:396/45.29@fidonet eeb86e36       PID: OpenXP/5.0.49 (Win32) (i386)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: 0000       Hello August!              *** Wednesday 24.03.21 at 21:19, August Abolins wrote to Martin Foster:               AA>>> But I suppose we would need a webbased versioning system, not a        AA>>> local one for participants/editors?               MF>> The master copy of the document would be held in the remote svn        MF>> repository and all changes to the document would be done in the users'        MF>> own local working copy of the document. All changes to the users'        MF>> working copy of the document would then be commited by each user to the        MF>> master copy in the remote svn repository. That's simplifying it a bit        MF>> but you should get the jist of how it works :)               AA> It sounds amazing! I am anxious to try it. But like I wrote        AA> earlier, I wasn't able to kick-start anything to work on.               AA> If the master is to be on a server, how does that work with        AA> tortoisesvn? Tortoisesvn seems to be a local program that works        AA> with one's own files only.              Once any changes have been completed in the user's working copy, those        changes would be merged into the remote master copy by using TortoiseSVN        to commit the changes.              Regards,       Martin              --- OpenXP 5.0.49        * Origin: Bitz-Box - Bradford - UK (2:310/31.3)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 105/81 120/340 123/131 124/5016 129/305 154/10       SEEN-BY: 203/0 221/0 226/30 227/114 702 229/101 424 426 664 700 1016       SEEN-BY: 229/1017 240/2100 5138 5411 5824 5832 5853 249/206 317 400       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 282/1038 288/100 292/854 8125 310/31 317/3 320/219       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/120 712/848 770/1 2432/390 2452/250       SEEN-BY: 2454/119       PATH: 310/31 280/464 240/5832 229/426           |
[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]
(c) 1994, bbs@darkrealms.ca