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Better version control + check-in / check out function. New issue

#8764
Open NobodyAnybody opened this issue on May 28 · 1 comment

NobodyAnybody commented on May 28 Labels

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OwnCloud is a great solution for your private or small business data-control but I do miss two functions.

The version control is lacking. To be honest I am not even sure how it works (it should be be intuitive). Milestone

When I edit a file it should save the old version as an old version but it does not. When I upload a file with No milestone
the same name it should also give me the question if it's a newer version and if so the older version can be
put in as older version in stead of just adding in a new copy (makes sense right?).. Assignee

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Even if I upload a file with a new name I should be able to say it's a new version of an already existing file
(because also a name change can be an update to an older file).
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Then the whole version control starts to make more sense and becomes useful. There should also be some
control as to when older files / versions get deleted. I did read the part about version-control in the manual
but it's extreme vague.
“For the first 10 seconds ownCloud keeps one version every 2 seconds“
To me that sentence makes no sense at all but as I don't get version-control to work it might be that the
version control works completely different from how I see version control.

In addition to that I do work one the same (video) files as other people and then a checkout / check-in
option would be great. It does not have to be much more then a bool that you can turn on or of to just inform
another person somebody is using it.

You could also show who checked it out but that does not work if multiple people use the same account (as
what is the case with me)

I put this check-in / -out function in the same 'issue' as the version-control because it can have some
functions working together with version-control. Whenever downloading an item you can get the question
“do you want to check this file out” and then when uploading it and attaching it to an existing file as being a
newer version it can ask you if you want to check it back in. In version history it's then also easy to see
what user made what version (and when).

This should be a great addition to OwnCloud in my opinion.

karlitschek added the label on May 28

PVince81 commented on May 30

The version control in ownCloud is not designed to be similar to SVN or git, it doesn't keep all versions.
It is designed to keep a higher number of recent versions but "thin out" the older versions.

Someone wrote an app for the check in check out / file locking: [Link]
/Workin2gether+%28files_w2g%29?content=164016

Adding the name of the user who changed a file has been requested here: #8730

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