Building version control features with CF

Hi,
I have a client with a wiki that I built in ColdFusion, and they'd like to be able to do collaborative document editing where changes to documents are tracked. I've seen this type of thing in Word, where changes get highlighted and you can see old and new text. I don't think it needs to be that fancy in terms of how changes are shown, since they're just using CKEditor to enter content, but they would need to be able to see what was changed, when and by whom (currently logged in user). I would make the documents in their final form downloadable as PDFs.
Anyone know of any version tracking type applications built in CF? Looking for code i.e. a CFC that I can re-use. Also curious how this sort of thing gets saved in a database, currently I just update the existing document record, but with version tracking each time an edit is done do I have to re-save the entire document as a new record? That could eventually eat up a lot of space in the database, but the alternative is just saving the changes to the document and that seems overly complicated--I'm not even sure how it would be accomplished.
Thanks,
Chris

For 10.1.2 the process is explained here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/collateral/papers/10g/gettingstartedwithcvs.pdf
In 10.1.3 it is more automatic - JDeveloper automatically recognize files which are candidate for adding to CVS.

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Assumptions/Terminology.
Roles:
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Each developer has their own database or schema to work with.
Database code is PL/SQL and DDL
Client code is everything else including sql scripts.
VC stands for generic version control. I may slip into CVS speak, but ideally this is product neutral.
Scenario 1: New developer on existing project.
1 Check out sources
Obviously need to define a VC repository connection in Raptor
Probably also need to define filesystem directory to check out to. Conceivably raptor could do this under the covers but if the source code is a mixture of database code and client code this isn't possible.
2 Run sources against database to create schema objects
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3 Edit-save-compile-edit objects in the database
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There may be clashes between this developer's changes and anothers.
Need to be able to compare current database with current cvs and merge in changes before commiting. The merged changes need to be immediately applied to the database.
6 Whoops forgot something, edit object on filesystem but don't check in.
7 Next day, try to edit same object in the database.
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2 This scenario merges into scenario 1.
Scenario 3: Tester begins new testing cycle
Scenario 4: DBA implements new code in production database.
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All checkout/export/diff actions should be against labels/tags/branches as well as the tip.
Filenames and formats.
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table_name.tbl -- create table
table_name.con -- constraints for table
table_name.idx -- indexes for table
view_name.vue
sequence_name.seq
Table DDL
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PL/SQL Templates
The ability to define basic package and procedure templates with VC keywords etc in place. New | Procedure etc would use these templates
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smitjb

Thanks for the detailed use cases. We can use this message to track Version control feature requests.
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I have a RoboHELP HTML (RH) project that is set up for
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to the version controlled original folder.
There are a lot of files in the copied folder that has
references to the original VSS location. How do I make this copied
project a self-containing version-controlled project with no
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Hi Rick:
Tried the link to the aricle on RobWizard. It works sort-of,
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location as well. Now my colleagues do not have modify privileges
to this old location at all. So when they try to edit a topic in
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location. Why should this happen since the copy of the project is
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