Re: How can I set permissions on shared source files?
Re: How can I set permissions on shared source files?
- Subject: Re: How can I set permissions on shared source files?
- From: Fritz Anderson <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:53:23 -0500
On 31 Jul 2004, at 3:52 AM, Julian Vrieslander wrote:
I would like to learn about VC systems eventually, for my own benefit.
But
my colleagues are fiercely resistent to change - it is very hard for
me to
convince them to learn new programs. And we are all hard-pressed for
time.
For now, I am considering a brute force approach. I wrote a simple
AppleScript droplet. Drag a folder full of files on it, and the
script sets
universal read/write access for all contained items. I know that this
script could be dangerous if used on the wrong things. ...
Management guru Stephen Covey has a concept called "sharpening the
saw." He asks you to consider this parable:
While I was walking through the woods one day, I came upon a man trying
to fell a tree with a saw. Though he had made little progress, he was
plainly on the point of exhaustion. I asked him how he was doing.
"I'd do a lot better, maybe even have some hope of finishing by
sunset," he said, "if only this saw weren't so dull."
"Why then," I asked, "don't you sharpen the saw?"
He scoffed. "I can't waste my time on that. It'll take the rest of the
day for me to cut down this tree as it is!"
Subversion, once you get through installing it, does everything short
of writing your code for you. I find the exercise of recording my
accomplishments in the change log (it obligingly presents a BBEdit
document for me to write it in) a regular ego boost. Version control
has developed to the point where its routine pleasures actually
overwhelm the inconveniences.
-- F
--
Fritz Anderson
Consulting Programmer
http://resume.manoverboard.org/
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