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Re: Show HN: Simple version control for designers

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Looks great - designers desperately need a better solution for versioning. My thoughts on existing options: - Dropbox isn't great because (as far as I know) you don't get to leave messages as you do with Git/SVN commits. - Git isn't great because (as far as I know) it's not so easy to quickly compare a whole history of iterations - I haven't looked at hosted options for a few months, but they've always seemed to be e…

We've toyed with the idea of doing commit messages, but we're holding off on them for now. A commit message is a way of explaining the behavior of the changes in (usually) code. When working with images though, the changes in design are readily visible. In a way, the commit message is contained within the image itself.

That being said, we may explore the options of a 2-up view in the future or a Github-style image diffing mechanism.

Re: Show HN: Simple version control for designers

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post #27

Looks great - designers desperately need a better solution for versioning. My thoughts on existing options: - Dropbox isn't great because (as far as I know) you don't get to leave messages as you do with Git/SVN commits. - Git isn't great because (as far as I know) it's not so easy to quickly compare a whole history of iterations - I haven't looked at hosted options for a few months, but they've always seemed to be e…

We've toyed with the idea of doing commit messages, but we're holding off on them for now. A commit message is a way of explaining the behavior of the changes in (usually) code. When working with images though, the changes in design are readily visible. In a way, the commit message is contained within the image itself. That being said, we may explore the options of a 2-up view in the future or a Github-style image di…

Agreed. We all end up naming our designs Index_01.psd, Index_01a.psd, .. anyway. I don't think commit messages are that important in design.
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