Sharepoint equiv for Linux

mcr at simtone.net mcr at simtone.net
Thu Jun 4 17:57:27 UTC 2009


>>>>> "Timothy" == Timothy Webster <tdwebste2 at yahoo.com> writes:
    Timothy> Yes I agree git is over kill for the document
    Timothy> repository. It was done after I lost our svn document
    Timothy> repository and need to setup a remote live backup in Hong
    Timothy> Kong. The other thing that moved me from svn to git is
    Timothy> gitosis. It is so easy to add repositories with the
    Timothy> appropriate user access control. This can be done with svn,
    Timothy> but it is more cumbersom.

  I too do not trust SVN's "fsfs" or "db" backends, and I'd prefer to
use git in the backend.  I worry that it's too powerful for PHBs.

    Timothy> I wish TortoiseGIT was better or git cola worked on our

  I too.

    Timothy> I would really love it, if odt files where each mini
    Timothy> repostories. I have thought about creating plugins to unzip
    Timothy> the odt files making this so. There are a number of

  I asked years ago to make 'save-as XML-directory" a standard part of
OO. There was a plugin for this, but it required too much effort to get
installed. 
  If that were done, then the files would be flat text...

    Timothy> Personally I am not much of fan of ptty. I much prefer
    Timothy> cygwin ssh. Unfortuately this still a process that must
    Timothy> occure to setup windows clients, which I wish was more
    Timothy> automated than it currently is.

  cygwin ssh takes even more junk to make it work.
  With the "portal putty" versions, you can mostly make things work from
a USB stick.... once Tortoise has installed it's DLL into exploder.

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