[Info-vax] Is there a way to enabling versioning in Samba

Bob Koehler koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org
Tue Jul 25 09:02:08 EDT 2017


In article <ol5l1q$1h2$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> 
> I've worked with a number of folks that do use file versions for 
> exactly that; for source control.   It's fairly common usage on smaller 
> projects on OpenVMS.   Many of the developers have been very 
> experienced and long-time OpenVMS folks, too.    What was asked by the 
> OP has been a fairly common reason why folks have asked similar 
> questions about OpenVMS file version creation and overwrites, too.   
> Hence my DVCS-related comments.  Also why I'd commented on different 
> potential goals that might be in play here.   Different folks use 
> OpenVMS for different reasons, and sometimes in vastly different ways,

   Anyone using file versions for source CM are going to run into my
   habit of enforcing per-directory version limits not more than 5.
   And not have the advantages of a proper CM tool to track collections
   horizontally or vertically through the directory tree and history.

   Anyone relying on a source CM tool for what file versions do well
   is going to run into "I didn't think I needed to save that version".




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