That's what you would think. And that's what Git does (in a devious, compact, efficient way that's better than saving a version of the entire file). Which may help explain why it's so well received. Tom -- "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." - Dr. Robert Muller On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 2:24 PM, keith smith wrote: > > I guess I need to dig deeper. I thought that was the core of what a > versioning system does - saves each version at commit so you will have a > different file each time you "save". > > ------------------------ > Keith Smith > > --- On *Tue, 12/7/10, Judd Pickell * wrote: > > > From: Judd Pickell > > Subject: Re: Versioning system - Subversion Vs. Git > To: "Main PLUG discussion list" > Date: Tuesday, December 7, 2010, 1:54 PM > > > I haven't seen anything in your posts that would indicate that GIT > would be better than SVN for your needs, with the exception of the > following: > > > > > Basically all I need is a way to track updates and keep someone from over > writing someone else's changes. > > > > Obviously there is no absolutely certain way to prevent someone from > overwriting another person's changes. However with GIT you would get a > more comprehensive way to compare and evaluate changes to figure out > how to solve the issue when such things happen. I prefer SVN myself, > but only more for familiarity than any other reason. > > Although for my current employment I Perforce, which is actually okay. > I hated it at first, felt too much like Source Safe for my liking, but > having working on an entire project from beginning to end only using > Perforce I can say I actually kind of enjoy it. It's branching and > versioning work pretty well and I am rarely stuck on bad merge issues. > > Sincerely, > Judd Pickell > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >