Comments on: Idea: text files plus svn for iPhone list makers

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:04:08 +0000

Ben, thanks, I'll check out (so to speak) iVersion. Not sure what you mean about svn not designed for single files? I check out and commit single files all the time.

By: Ben Reeves

Ben Reeves — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:09:34 +0000

Regarding the using svn as a storage system. Currently svn is not designed to checkout and commit single files so it would be cumbersome for a notes app to use svn. However I am the developer of an svn client the for iphone, it's called iVersion and is available in the app store. Commit support is not available at present, but will be added soon.

By: tom

tom — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:31:13 +0000

I also would pay for a text editor that let me check out and check in a single file to a revision control system.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:57:22 +0000

I would buy the first hand held mobile device to have an SVN client. I like SVN.

By: Sho

Sho — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:55:59 +0000

P.S. I'm one of the guys behind notespark in case it wasn't obvious from the previous comment.

By: Sho

Sho — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 04:55:40 +0000

Have you tried notespark? It's an iPhone / web notes app and under the hood, we built a synchronization server that is, essentially, a mini-revision control system. It was the only way we could get merging to work in complex situations.

The server keeps track of which version you have "checked out" from the phone, and does three way merges when conflicts arise. This might have been a bit of over-engineering, but we wanted the system to be robust when multiple people edit the note simultaneously.

The server keeps a history of every revision of every note. We don't expose that to users because.. um.. it seemed like overkill for a notes app.