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What do you use for storyline file Version control tools? Git?
Hey everyone,
In our organization, we often have more than one person needing to edit a storyline file. It's becoming a version control nightmare. I thought git might work as a version control system forcing user to check out/in files when they are going to work on them. My boss thinks git would not be right for this purpose.
We are currently just using the honor system and trying to force everyone to append the current date in their file names (e.g. myfile_04022026.story), but not everyone does and it's a huge problem. We really need a tool for this instead.
How do you all manage this? What tools have you found that work well? What tools have been a disaster for this?
All advice welcome!
Thanks,
Lori
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It's been some time since I've used git, but I think your boss is correct; it doesn't seem to be the best tool to use.
It sounds to me that your group's work processes are really part of the problem. If everyone is "needing to edit a storyline file" at any given time, it's no wonder that yoou are seeing versioning issues.
Have you tried to define specific owners for respective files/stories? At the very least, that would seem to be a good step to start with. Then you might try creating an unpublished scene in each story that contains a simple list/table:
Date Author/Writer/WorkerBee Actions Taken Version Saved As
And while the honor system may presently not be working, this sort of tracking would at least allow you to have a pretty good idea of who toggled a variable in scene X that caused scene Y to stall...
