My Need for Subversion ~ How it all started

After a careful analysis i have come to a conclusion that SVN would be an excellent tool for backup and versioning of desktop and laptops around my office. My users have data scattered all over their system and in the event of system failure, its a hassle to get the data back. Moreover, they keep travelling frequently and its kind of hard to get the latest versions of their documents (especially the sales and marketing folks) and emails at this stage gets a little messy. Over the last few months we have been thinking to implement a full blown Document Management System and some of my team members were even head start with exploring a few products. Then one fine day i just noticed my wife using SVN with TortoiseSVN for her documents and data (she works from home, so there is a greater need for her team to do proper versioning and data management) and i was amazingly impressed with it. Moreover i was all the more impressed after seeing the beauty of TortoiseSVN, which seamlessly integrates within the Windows Explorer. At that very moment, i knew this was the solution that i was looking for.

Without further ado, i started googling for SVN and i quickly learnt some concepts of it. It isnt much different than CVS (i had used cvs earlier on, so it was a lil easy for me).

After this i decided to create this blog and i would sharing all my experiences here. Hope it would be useful for some of you guys out there.