Version control suggestions

Before i spend tons of hours on this i figure it would be a good idea to ask people with much more experence than myself.
I work in a small multimedia development shop of about 10 people. Our pimary development tools are the Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection (Flash Pro, Photoshop, Premiere, Audition and Dreamweaver), Adobe Captivate, zBrush, and 3D Max 2012.
We HAVE TO come up with some sort of version control solution that will work with all the programs we use. Alien Brain was the first choice.... unfortunatlly that was denied due to cost. With Captivate, Master Suite, zBrush and AutoDesk Entertainment Suite all being purchased reciently we have about all the software purchasing we are going to have for a while.
So, with the current situation explained..... what are the prefered version control systems that you all have used or currently use that will support the most Adobe file formats?
Are there ay version control systems you have found to be best to avoid with Adobe file formats?
Thank you in advance for any comments, suggestions or warnings.

To clarify..... Yes, I understand that different Adobe Applications save in different formats and there is no "common" Adobe file format.
The purpose was to see if there were any specific formats that people had problems with in a particular flavor of subversion being as there are different types of subversions as well as different user clients and methods to check items in any out of whatever particular subversion solution you choose.
I have been researching all the different subversions solutions, branches of those solutions as well as user clients for checking in and checking out items. Unfortunately most don't have a list of supported file types but i have found a few complaints about specifically Apache Subversion and TortioseSVN corrupting data but I believe a majority of the complaints are from incorrect installs and incorrect paths.
A good list of version control solutions I started with :
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3177311
Other people struggling with the same problem :
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/610194
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2730898
Adobe Drive & Asset Management that says it works with CS5.5 Applications but numerous complaints on it falling short.
http://www.adobe.com/products/adobedrive.html
To ask the question a different way that might be easier to get a response.
What version control solution do you use with Adobe CS5.5 Applications?
Do you have any problems with any particular file type in the solution that you use?
I wish i could use Alien Brain and i am jealous if you do. :O)

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I'm coming at this as a subversion server administrator, and in subversion people keep their own copy of everything, and occasionally "commit" their changes, and the server keeps every "committed" version of every file.
I liked subversion because: 1) users have their own copy, if they are away from the office or make a big oops mistake, it doesn't ever hit the server, and 2) you can lock a file to avoid conflicts, and 3) if you don't lock the file and a conflict (two simultaneous edits) occur, it has systems for dealing with conflicts.
I didn't like subversion because it adds a level of complexity to things -- and many people ended up with critical files that should be shared on their own hard drives. So now I'm setting up a fileshare for them, which they will use in addition to the subversion repository.
I guess I realize that I'll never get full subversion-like functionality in a file share. But through a system of permissions, incremental backups and mirroring (rsync, second-copy for windows users) I should be able to allow a) local copies on user's hard drives, b) control for conflicts (locking, conflict identification), and keeping old versions of things.
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I'm now looking at using the wiki for project-level documentation. We've done that before quite successfully, and the wiki I was using (mediawiki) provides version history of pages and uploaded files, and stores the uploaded files in the file system.
Which would leave just the large data files and some working files on the fileshare. Is there any way people can lock a file on the fileshare, to indicate to others that they are working on it and others shouldn't be modifying it? Is there a way to use unix permissions (user-group-other) permissions, "chmod oa-w" to lock a file and indicate that one is working on it?
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[email protected]

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Colum,
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Hi Michael,
Per my understanding that you want to find a solution for version control when you design the report using the Report Builder 3.0, right?
As you know that Report Builder is a tool which can only work on one single file instead of a project , so the current version of Report Builder doesn't have these capabilities. You can submit a feature request about it on the Microsoft UserVoice site
here:
http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/category/53187-sql-bi-tools-srs-ssis-ssas-
Generally, visual Studio Team System and Visual Source Safe integrate with the Visual Studio/BIDS shell and third-party source control solutions like SVN managed from the file system play well with version control. So I would suggest you to consider use
them instead.
In conclusion, one possible workaround for you is that you can save all .rdl files in third part tool’s(TFS) workspace folder for version control purpose (check in, check out with the Windows Shell Extension), and you can use Report Builder to edit these
report files. Then use Report Builder to deploy the .rdl file to Report Server.
More details information about the version control for your reference:
https://sqlserverbiblog.wordpress.com/tag/ssrs-version-control/
Similar thread for your reference:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/939b3a90-067d-4593-b456-76533c9d60ce/sync-ssrs-visual-studio-project-with-ssrs-server-alm?forum=sqlreportingservices
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/1ad0db30-7fd8-4007-9731-ec8f2f44605f/report-format-rdl-version-control?forum=sqlreportingservices
If you still have any question, please feel free to ask.
Regards
Vicky Liu

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I've read the help articles but it seems they are targeted at installing svn on your local machine, and I want to install it on my remote servers. I realize this is not a Dreamweaver specific question but wondered if there are any obvious paths to this someone might know of.
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Hostgator tech support helped me get it back to 1.7.5 (no explanation for how it became 1.6 after I installed and verified 1.7.5, odd)
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[~]# svn --version
svn, version 1.7.5 (r1336830)
compiled Jun 28 2012, 22:37:11
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anon-access = none
auth-access = write
password-db = passwd
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I added the repo as he said, ~/repos
I added two users/passwords to the file (not sure how to confirm I did it right though)
I'm stuck on this step:
svn import /path to your project/myD5project file:///home/juicyserveradmin/myrepository
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We've been doing all of our development work live on the front end which is of course a terrible idea and constantly causes issues where problems are showing up live.
So i set up dev.example.com which is within the main example.com directory called /dev and as a subdomain.
I also set up /dev2 the same way.
The only difference is that /dev is set on cron to have all of example.com main files copy to it once a day, so it stays more or less in sync.
/dev2 is not being synced that way.
My idea was then I've got two dev folders we can do work in, one that syncs and one that stays static.
I want to have svn working for all 3....the live site, the /dev and the /dev2.
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I want the same user/pass at the moment for all 3.
Then I'm back to not quite sure how to set that up in DW, and, what to import into each if that's the best way to do it?
Also I was confused about the path command above.
In the scenario above can you create that path for me to see exactly how I should paste it in if I do three repos, if, and please tell me, if doing it that way even makes sense?
For DW server settings, is the sever address the IP address of my dedicated server?
And I'm not sure what to put for Repository Path given the questions above.
Thanks again for your patience and help...
Also:
I see from this link
http://civicactions.com/blog/2010/may/25/how_set_svn_repository_7_simple_steps
That I would maybe want to set up different directories within the /repos directory for the three versions of the site, live, dev and dev2?
I'm still confused about the format of the path.
Would it be like
svn mkdir file:///nameofmyhomedir/repos/live
svn mkdir file:///nameofmyhomedir/repos/dev
svn mkdir file:///nameofmyhomedir/repos/dev2
Where I want the directories to be named live,dev and dev2?
Can you correct that path for me if that's not quite right?
I do see in DW now for my local site that I've got + next to all the files after setting up the Version Control server, but, because I don't have the path to the repo right I guess or the server address right...it says it can't connect:
Access: Subversion
Protocol: SVN
Server Address: My IP address?
Repository Path: Not sure if I did ~/repos what the full path to it on my server is?
Server Port: 3690
username/pass what I set up in the file according to his directions.
Can you steer me towards dialing this in right pretty please?
Thanks in advance for any help.

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We are using Application Express (HTML-DB) 2.0 with Oracle 10g Release 2. We have developed a number of pages within our application (basically sales reporting). We are starting to get ready move these pages to a test and production environment.
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http://htmldb.oracle.com/i/doc/mvl_manage002.htm#sthref1206#BABFBBEE (I believe this is for HTML-DE Version 1.5I did look in the same area for 2.0)
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Stuff - this is also something we've been grappling with.
Did you see the excellent tip about using Web server (or PL/SQL) redirects to point to the current app? The idea is that you copy the current prod app, work on the copy and then update the redirect to point to the new app when it's released and make the old app unavailable.
This is quite brilliant in its simplicity, and has the added benefit of leaving the old app intact for bug fixes and re-releases, (or even rollback) if necessary. However, the problem with it, and the reason it's no good for our purposes, is because it sits on top of the same schema, so if the version control applies to objects in the database (i.e. the schema itself or packages etc.), then you're snookered (as far as I understand it anyway).
In a previous project, our suppliers used VSS and versioned code at the app and function/procedure/package level - I'd love to know if anyone has a robust scheme for versioning at page level.
I suspect History is an audit trail rather than versioning - I can't imagine that all the objects in all their respective states are being persisted for anything other than 'undo' purposes.
Versioning at page level seems to be problematic but it can be done, provided that the shared components are sufficiently consistent. The trick is to edit the security group ID, but the usual caveats apply.
What seems problematic to us is how to create a build out of components at different versions, like you might in a conventionally-packaged exe. I think we might end up checking in (or just saving in the file system) consistent versions at app and package level (having developed and tested in a separate schema or instance), and doing an overwrite of the prod app plus running a DDL script for package/function/procedure updates with schema deltas and other things like image uploads applied manually at cutover.
I suspect that once I delve a bit deeper into where all these objects are stored, there will be more potential for scripting, but I'm not entirely confident that this will, reliably, give us entirely what we had in Pre-Prod. Another problem I've found with this approach is that packages don't get consistently replaced.
It may simply be that we're applying waterfall concepts to what is really a RAD tool, but in any case this is my first Web-enabled development so I've been at sea with everything from design methodology to version control.
Like you, I would be really interested to hear of other suggestions.
Regards,
John.

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