Version Control for non Programmers

[Kevin Brown]

> Anyone know of any docs on version control for non programmers? I'm 
> trying to get my wife to use subversion for all her business docs. so 
> far its too much for her. its too many extra steps. Any ideas on 
> automating some of the steps (esp. typing in her ssh passwd) would be 
> helpful. I'm looking now to see if anyone has a plug in for openoffice 
> to work with subversion. Perhaps my biggest mistake was trying to get 
> her to do it from the command line. But I don't know any of the GUI 
> clients so if anyone has a preferred GUI for Linux please let me know. 
> She's been working with Linux exclusively for about 3 years but doesn't 
> want something that will "get in her way" while creating docs. All the 
> books I have on Subversion and CVS have too much code in the examples.

I'm not sure about the rest as I've been trying to figure out subversion 
also, but you can reduce the need for her to type in a password by 
generating a key and using it to login via ssh instead of the password mode.