How linear is a series of versions? For actual writing (as opposed to coding perhaps) it would be absolute bliss to be able to decide that you would want to return to the wording of the discussion three versions previously *without* discarding the work you have done meanwhile. 

Is that possible and how do the usual suspects differ with respect to this?

Many thanks
Christoph

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:32 PM, Gerd Knops <gerti-textmate@bitart.com> wrote:

On Feb 29, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Andy Armstrong wrote:

> On 29 Feb 2008, at 17:07, Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient wrote:
>> Although I've been trying to move to Mercurial or Git for quite a
>> while, I would most highly recommend Subversion for what you have
>> in mind.

Not sure I agree. With subversion, unless you have access to the
server, you can't do version control. That precludes offline working.

For that very reason I have been using darcs. It allows me to do
version control locally, and push the changes out to a server whenever
I want/can.

Now darcs has some rough edges and I would not necessarily recommend
it, though it works fine for me. Like others I have not yet found the
time to check out Mercurial or Git, which I think offer similar
features for offline work.

Gerd


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