symek Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Could anyone possibly write a few words of comparison between these two solutions. I'm quite surprised with similarities between them. Is SVN commonly used in studios? What are the advantages of AlienBrain? It seams to me that writing one good SVN client (with some goodies like image viewer) would assimilate SVN and AB pretty much, which is an issue if you take into account AB's price policy, Windows Server requirement and so on... Am I losing some point or what? Why ILM uses AB if there is powerful, free SVN code out there? thanks, sy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheUsualAlex Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I am not sure about AlienBrain, but SVN is commonly used in studios these days and sorta replaced CVS. However, SVN is much more common in the software department. Most TD scripts I've seen were versioned in rcs. SVN can handle binary data, but I haven't seen SVN being used in anything non-text file yet. I thought AlienBrain was more for general digital asset repository, no? They're both built for quite different purpose, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symek Posted July 5, 2007 Author Share Posted July 5, 2007 I am not sure about AlienBrain, but SVN is commonly used in studios these days and sorta replaced CVS. However, SVN is much more common in the software department. Most TD scripts I've seen were versioned in rcs. SVN can handle binary data, but I haven't seen SVN being used in anything non-text file yet. I thought AlienBrain was more for general digital asset repository, no? They're both built for quite different purpose, I believe. Thanks TheUsualAlex for comment. On the other hand WIKI states that SVN is fully capable to deal with binaries too. What is first condition of cource. I wonder what is a practice.... cheers, sy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photex Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 I use it. It rocks. Handles large binaries easily. I use clients and the command line. Tactic from southpaw technology integrates into houdini and is based around svn as well (from what I've read.. I've never seen or used it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 "Tactic from southpaw technology integrates into houdini" + Grain Of Salt. be very careful of any asset management that claims to 'intergrate' into your software...even very slight differences in pipelines can result in things not working well at all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photex Posted July 5, 2007 Share Posted July 5, 2007 Duly noted. I enquired about it, but they are only dealing with larger entities at the moment. I admit I'm easily tempted by keywords like that though.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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