[AccessD] Access source control

Yea, but I want source control.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Dan Waters wrote:
> <I am currently faced with a set of FEs that I need to see the differentials
> of.>
> 
> FMS has a utility you can purchase called Access Detective.  It's about a
> couple hundred dollars, and you'd quickly get that back in time saved.
> 
> HTH,
> Dan
> 
> 
> Charlotte Foust wrote:
>> I guess the success will depend on what you hope to gain.  Without a
>> checkin/out from within Access, any changes to a database will have to
>> be manually exported and then imported to subversion, right?  I'm not
>> familiar with the product, so how do you keep versions of the objects
>> rather than overwriting, or does it matter?
>>
>> Charlotte
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 4:21 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>>> I am trying a workaround.  Max has written code that exports all the
> objects in an access database
>>> to text files.  It seems a short step to using that to get them into
> subversion.
>>> John W. Colby
>>> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>>>
>>>
>>> Charlotte Foust wrote:
>>>> How would you move items in an out of Access?  Source Safe uses an
>>>> Access add-in to handle source control at the object level.  Is there
>>>> something similar for subversion, or are you trying a workaround?
>>>>
>>>> Charlotte
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:35 PM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>>>>> I am wondering whether we could put together subversion and Access to
> do source control.
>>>>> Max's eatbloat will export and import most things Access into a
> directory structure.  Subversion
>>>>> could be used to move that stuff into version control.  Once in
> subversion, we might be able to do
>>>>> differencing etc.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whaddayathink?
>>>>>
>>>>>
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