Have you read Steven Yi's article on using source code management
systems for his Csound projects? It may be worth a read:

http://www.csounds.com/journal/issue7/managingProjectsWithMercurial.html

Rory.



On 11 August 2011 18:57, Dawn-Marie Dunn  wrote:
> Hello all, I am fairly new to CSound as one of Dr. Boulanger's Berklee
> students, so please forgive if this is too off-topic. But this seems like
> the best way to reach a variety of musicians who are ALSO very
> technologically savvy.
>
> At this stage of my musical career, I am beginning to find that my projects
> are reaching a size and complexity that both make keeping adequate backups
> essential, and difficult, as these projects may involved a multitude of
> session files, audio formats, and collaborators using a variety of hardware
> setups.
>
> I've used Subversion as part of a game development project in the spring,
> and it was such a relief to know that a) I couldn't "break" anyone else's
> work permanently, and b) if I deleted something accidentally, it would be
> recoverable. I am looking for something similar that will work well with
> projects that don't necessarily include software development, and also NOT
> require command-line use. (Not only do I have very little desire to learn
> yet another skill on top of the many in my college coursework/career
> studies, I am working with a graphic artist on a game project - and since I
> can't pay her I want to make it as easy as possible for her to work with
> me.)
>
> GitHub has been recommended to me as a repository, so I will probably go
> with that. However, are there any further resources anyone can recommend for
> beginners? Websites, books, graphical frontends, etc? Has anyone used Git
> for non-software development purposes, and how did that go?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Dawn-Marie Dunn
> ddunn@berklee.net
> dunn.dawnmarie@gmail.com
>


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I use GitHub myself, and will be using it for all of my future public
projects for the foreseeable future. I also use Git for my local
repositories. It's just really easy to use, especially when compared
to subversion.

Jake
-- 
codehop.com | #code #art #music


On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Dawn-Marie Dunn
 wrote:
> Hello all, I am fairly new to CSound as one of Dr. Boulanger's Berklee
> students, so please forgive if this is too off-topic. But this seems like
> the best way to reach a variety of musicians who are ALSO very
> technologically savvy.
>
> At this stage of my musical career, I am beginning to find that my projects
> are reaching a size and complexity that both make keeping adequate backups
> essential, and difficult, as these projects may involved a multitude of
> session files, audio formats, and collaborators using a variety of hardware
> setups.
>
> I've used Subversion as part of a game development project in the spring,
> and it was such a relief to know that a) I couldn't "break" anyone else's
> work permanently, and b) if I deleted something accidentally, it would be
> recoverable. I am looking for something similar that will work well with
> projects that don't necessarily include software development, and also NOT
> require command-line use. (Not only do I have very little desire to learn
> yet another skill on top of the many in my college coursework/career
> studies, I am working with a graphic artist on a game project - and since I
> can't pay her I want to make it as easy as possible for her to work with
> me.)
>
> GitHub has been recommended to me as a repository, so I will probably go
> with that. However, are there any further resources anyone can recommend for
> beginners? Websites, books, graphical frontends, etc? Has anyone used Git
> for non-software development purposes, and how did that go?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Dawn-Marie Dunn
> ddunn@berklee.net
> dunn.dawnmarie@gmail.com
>


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