Reply To: Magic and Tech: Initial Development

[davehawes 7768xp 1]

@limburger My “day job” as it were is in software development, and very familiar with version control, but you make a good point. I remember the bad old days of early source control like MS SourceSafe, which is about the most misleading name a product could ever have!

 

Drop Box I can see that happening (though at home I tend to use a Mac which has a much more sensible dialog box for when you potentially overwrite an old copy). Google Drive does now natively support versioning and if you add something in with the same name it asks you if you want to keep the old versions. But you are right it’s not a primary feature of those tools.

 

Office365 plus SharePoint can do a decent job of versioning on documents, but I don’t think there is a free version of that? Could be wrong.

 

If you want to go the whole hog, you could use GitHub.com which is free for public repos. So then you’d get full on version control and the concept of a master version, could even label versions that got released as “beta” or other official versions. Though that might be using a nuclear weapon to crack a nut!