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Re: Zip archiver tool which can zip many revisions of a file?
de Borg 04/12/2006 10:04
laterna@magic.ms wrote in news:1144753911.114354.261130
@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com:
> Hello,
>
> I'm looking for an zip/archive tool, which can zip many revisions of
> one file.
>
> For example:
> I create a word-document abc.doc an save it an zip it
> Nex day I add something to the document, save it an zip it (the
> filename still ist abc.doc!)
>
> What I want is, that I now have 2 versions of this document stored in
> my zip archive (both having the same name abc.doc)
> It should be possibe to extract any stored version of this document.
> The selection, which revision to extract, should be done by date/time.
>
> Do you know a zip archiver which includes this feature?
>
> Many thanks for any hint.
> Regards
> Hans
>
Yes, you are looking version control system.
Since im user of ClearCase.. I wrote a simple tool for 'checkin'
a file to create a version from it... checkin.exe integrates with
Explorer so you have Check In in right click menu. History is generated
from newest (1) to oldest (9). Tool will push versions up
so 1 -> 2, 2 -> 3, ... , 9 is deleted. and file -> file.1.
ci is a wrapper for cygwin bash.
Example:
# ls checkin.c*
checkin.c
# ci -f checkin.c
ci: File 'checkin.c' checked in
# ls checkin.c*
checkin.c checkin.c.1
# ci -f checkin.c
ci: File 'checkin.c' checked in
# ls checkin.c*
checkin.c checkin.c.1 checkin.c.2
You can download both sources and Win32 compiled from
ftp://ftp.benet.uu3.net/pub/tools/checkin/
Regards,
Borg