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N.J. governor thanks volunteers as Baptist response continues
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (left) greets Dave Karr, on-site coordinator for the Oklahoma Southern Baptist Disaster Relief team serving in Middletown, N.J. SBDR team members attended the governor's community visit at the Port Monmouth Fire Co. 1. The neighborhood took on eight feet of water during the tidal surge from Hurricane Sandy. The Oklahoma team is being hosted by New Monmouth Baptist Church while serving in Middletown. Photo by Laura Sikes/NAMB.
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North American Mission Board President Kevin Ezell (right) encouraged members of the Kentucky Baptist Conventions Disaster Relief Kitchen Number One on Monday at Aqueduct Racetrack in South Ozone Park, N.Y. The cooking team expected to prepare more than 20,000 meals Monday. Ezell was in New York and New Jersey talking and praying with SBDR volunteers, some 700 strong, who are serving victims of Hurricane Sandy. Photo by Mike Ebert/NAMB.
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New Monmouth Baptist Church members served a meal prepared by an Oklahoma Southern Baptist Disaster Relief feeding unit Monday night at Belford Engine Co. 1 in Middletown, N.J. Member Nancy Best (left) talks with Tracey Herrlich who came for a meal with her children Mackenzie, 14, and Mark, 11. The family has been without power for eight days but their home made it through the storm, though their neighbors' homes were flooded. Photo by Laura Sikes/NAMB.
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MIDDLETOWN, N.J. (BP) -- Election Day dawned with Hurricane Sandy storm survivors voting in tents -- along with a reminder of the preparation of Southern Baptist Disaster Relief volunteers. Prior to Sandy's landfall, SBDR area commander Mark Gauthier reminded state DR leaders to make sure deploying volunteers voted absentee before they traveled to begin ministry.
The day also brought continued meal preparation at more than 16 locations and increased mud-out jobs, with more requests mounting. The previous day, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie commended yellow-shirted Baptist volunteers in Middletown, N.J.
North American Mission Board DR executive director Fritz Wilson, meanwhile, said the Sandy response will continue well into the new year.
Middletown has become one of the hubs of SBDR ministry where volunteers, primarily from Oklahoma thus far, are being hosted by New Monmouth Baptist Church and pastor Mike Miller.
"This is an unusual operation," said Dave Karr, on-site coordinator for the Middletown response. "Things have not progressed the way they normally do in a disaster setting. Local people are finding their way to shelters and the church members here are finding out what they need. The local shelters have told us how many meals they need and the church members are delivering the meals to the shelters."
Karr, a six-year DR veteran, is accompanied by some 90 Oklahoma SBDR volunteers to operate a three-station kitchen capable of preparing 35,000 meals a day, a shower unit, a laundry unit, three chain saw units and a mud-out unit. Karr, a member of Bethel Baptist Church in Norman, Okla., said nothing has been typical about this response.
Karr and his team received word Monday that Gov. Christie would be visiting a nearby firehouse. "We decided we'd take a look," Karr said.
"We were standing in the back when one of his aides gathered us up and moved us to the front of the crowd," Karr recounted. "Gov. Christie said, 'Ah, my friends with disaster relief.' He thanked us for our service. I told him that we are here to serve and what our kitchens were capable of preparing. I told him we were ready to help in any way we can."
NAMB President Kevin Ezell also was in New Jersey Monday as well as New York. He visited SBDR volunteers, thanking them for their service. He also toured parts of New York that took the brunt of Sandy's fury.
"We walked through areas of Staten Island where some people lost their lives. Others lost all of the material possessions they had," Ezell said. "It reminded me that the things of this world are temporary and can be gone in a moment. It also reminded me why the work of SBDR volunteers is so important. We relieve the temporary physical suffering by helping with meals and other immediate needs. But we also bring the long-term healing and hope that only comes through a relationship with Christ." Ezell prayed with volunteers and thanked them for their efforts.
"They've left the comforts of home to make life a little better for storm survivors," Ezell said. "It is so good to know in times of great need, you can count on Southern Baptists for acts of great service."
On Monday night Graffiti Church in Manhattan hosted more than 100 people for homeowner flood and mold recovery training led by SBDR response coordinator Randy Creamer, who will continue to hold community training sessions in churches throughout New York and New Jersey.
At Middletown, while the Oklahoma DR team is being housed at New Monmouth Baptist Church, the actual kitchens and units are set up in the parking lot of Saint Mary's Catholic Church across the street. "I think it is great that it shows we can work together to help people in need," Karr said.
"Pastor Miller at New Monmouth has been great. He told us the church is ours; use it however we need it. He did say he'd like to use it for a little while on Sundays," Karr joked.
By Karr's estimate, New Monmouth will be a center of SBDR activity for the foreseeable future. With the ramp-up to recovery in full swing, he expects volunteers will remain engaged in ministry for a long time.
From its disaster operations center in Alpharetta, Ga., NAMB coordinates and manages Southern Baptist responses to major disasters through a partnership between NAMB and the SBC's 42 state conventions, most of which have their own state disaster relief programs.
SBDR assets include 82,000 trained volunteers, including chaplains, and some 1,550 mobile units for feeding, chainsaw, mud-out, command, communication, childcare, shower, laundry, water purification, repair/rebuild and power generation. SBDR is one of the three largest mobilizers of trained disaster relief volunteers in the United States, along with the American Red Cross and The Salvation Army.
Southern Baptists and others who want to donate to the disaster relief operations can contact their state conventions or, via the Web, contribute to NAMB's disaster relief fund at
. Other ways to donate are to call 1-866-407-NAMB (6262) or mail checks to NAMB, P.O. Box 116543, Atlanta, GA 30368-6543. Designate checks for "Disaster Relief."
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Local artist wins contest
Local artist Connie Orgonas won the second annual Smuggler's Inn art contest with her watercolor of "Blaine Lighthouse on a Stormy Night," innkeeper Bob Boule announced last week.
"I'm thrilled!" exclaimed Orgonas, "partly because I got my work in just before last summer's deadline. I painted that in just two days, but sometimes your quickest work is also your best."
Second and third places went to Bellingham artists Dixie Tamcke and Richard King for their paintings of northwest lighthouses. Bellingham marine artist Jim Williamson won the people's choice award for his "Safe Harbor Light" rendering of the old Blaine lighthouse.
For the contest, artists were asked to depict either the old Blaine lighthouse that once stood offshore near the entrance to Drayton Harbor or a northwest lighthouse of their choice. Contest winners shared over $1,200 in prize money. The paintings, all of which are for sale, can be viewed in the new Carriage House immediately east of the Smuggler's Inn on Canada View Drive.
Boule said that paintings for next year's contest should show something of either July's Blaine Jazz Festival or an activity carried on by the Boy Scouts of America in Whatcom County, such as the annual Hands Across the Border event held every June at the Peace Arch.


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A toilet seat framed with the words "Toll Plans" near the entrance of the Mercer Island Community & Event Center might have given WSDOT officials an indication of how their presentation to study tolls on Interstate 90 would be received Tuesday night at the first of three public forums.
An overflow crowd of 300-400 people jammed inside a room in an at times raucous gathering at the Mercer Island Community and Event Center, looking for a way to weigh in on plans by the State Legislature to begin tolling I-90 between I-5 in Seattle and I-405 in Bellevue.
Large placards explaining the options currently under consideration were placed at the front of the room, including possible locations for new toll gantries, which could be placed on the west side of the Mt. Baker I-90 tunnel, the west side of Mercer Island and on the west side of the East Channel Bridge, also on Mercer Island.
WSDOT Tolling Division Assistant Secretary Craig Stone told the gathering that the agency was looking to the public to help them determine the "scope" of how broadly the upcoming study, called an Environmental Review, would look at the effects tolling I-90 could have on the communities it currently serves. Once complete, the study will then offer recommendations to legislators.
It was the State Legislature, Stone said, that directed WSDOT to review possibilities of tolling Interstate 90 at some point in the future to help them pay for completing the replacement of the SR 520 Floating Bridge — freeways which they view as directly linked as a "crosslake corridor". Legislators could possibly approve a tolling plan as soon as 2014.
"Normally in a big project, you're talking about maybe building a road or a school or something," he said. "You're looking at envionmental footprint, you're looking at wetlands. We're not really talking about those types of things here. Most of this is social standpoint, saying, if you put tolling on I-90, what's going to happen?"
Stone, despite occasional jeers and challenges from the crowd, took over a dozen questions from the audience and described the need for taking a look at tolling I-90 as twofold: To help pay down the $1.4 billion gap in funding for replacing the 520 floating bridge, and to manage traffic problems — particularly on I-90, which saw an average 11 percent increase in traffic that resulted from tolling 520.
Under questioning, however, Stone conceded that WSDOT did not currently have authority to toll I-90, though he believed the state could successfully gain permission from the federal government to do so under a "Value-Pricing" program. He cited the Elizabeth River Crossings project as an example of the state — in this case, Virginia — using tolling to pay for improvements elsewhere in a transit corridor. The private-public project is currently the subject of a lawsuit from a citizen's group in Federal Court.
A local business owner also asked Stone if the study would consider the effects a toll could have on small businesses like hers on Mercer Island. Stone said the assessment of economic impacts would have to be limited at some level and might not examine the effects at the "micro level."
"We may not be able to satisfy everybody," he said.
Although it was billed as a public meeting, WSDOT Tolls Division spokesperson Colleen Gants drew criticism when she told the audience that the three-hour meeting was to encourage residents to fill out comment cards and gather information in an "Open House" setting, rather than as an open forum open to all speakers.
A "No Tolls on I-90" protester entered the room to applause shortly afterwards, shouting his disapproval and hoisting a sign emblazoned with the words, "Keep I-90 a FREE WAY".
Gants later told Patch that the cost of the toll to cross one or two toll gantries had not been determined yet and would ultimately be the responsibility of the State Tolling Commission to set toll rates. But she said any toll pricing structure would likely mirror the 520 Floating Bridge. By some estimates — formulated by local residents — paying a toll each way on .
Mercer Island business owner Liz Callahan echoed the concerns of many residents asking questions as she worried about the impact the additional costs of tolls would have on non-residents who commute to the Island on a daily basis — potentially adding thousands of dollars to the cost of working there.
"We're just adding to the cost of trying to retain these professionals, like school teachers and police, to retain them," she said. "It's taxpayer money that pays for them, so it's like they're just playing a giant shell game with our money."
Stone also said that the study would include studying discounts for captive populations which had no alternative to using I-90.
It was WSDOT's second meeting this month on Mercer Island, and citizens at an earlier Jan. 7 meeting at Mercer Island City Hall attended the presentation as well, voicing oppostion. Several city council members, all recently voicing opposition to the tolls, attended the meeting, but no local state legislators attended — including local State Sen. Steve Litzow (R-Mercer Island) and Rep. Judy Clibborn (D-Mercer Island), the current State House Transportation Committee chair.
Mayor Bruce Bassett said he hoped more citizens would consider his proposal of placing two I-90 tolling gantries on either side of Mercer Island, hoping that this might provide information that residents and employees could use to ask for a reduced toll or an outright exemption.
"There are a lot of people that are saying 'No Tolls on I-90' and that's the end of the conversation," he said. "I think that might be less effective than trying to understand how to get the best outcome for us."
There are two more public meetings where WSDOT will take public comment in Bellevue and Seattle. Here are the details:
- Bellevue City Hall Jan. 30 (4pm-7pm) 450 110th Ave NE, Bellevue, WA 98004
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The Guntersville city council gave the fire chief approval to apply for a grant for a hazardous chemical detection device on Monday night.
Should there be a chemical spill, this new technology would let officials know where the dangers are and how far out those dangers exist.
Fire Chief Tracy Battles plans to ask the city council Monday night to seek out the $160,000 grant through the Department of Homeland Security.
Because Guntersville is a port city, Battles said that makes the city eligible.
Battles said the device is portable and has sensors that can detect the flow of a chemical spill.
If firefighters know the direction and speed of the spill, Battles said that is how they can better protect the public in keeping them a safe distance away.
Battles said dangers currently exist with chlorine at water treatment plants and other chemicals at processing plants.
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- Getting sunburned can trigger psoriasis flares, so never stay out for more than 15 minutes.
- If you're going to be in the sun for longer than 15 minutes, put sunscreen on your psoriasis patches. Choose brands designed for sensitive skin. They're less likely to irritate your psoriasis.
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Swimming, especially in salt water, sloughs off dead skin and improves the appearance of psoriasis. Still, both salt water and chlorinated water can leave skin dry and flakey. After swimming, rinse off well and put on a gentle moisturizer.
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WASHINGTON -- Rep. Peter King attacked Sen. Marco Rubio and other Republican presidential hopefuls on Thursday for having the nerve to come to New York to raise campaign money after voting against the Sandy Relief Act.
"Any senator or any congressman who voted against Sandy aid should not get a nickel from New York," said King, a veteran Seaford congressman, after sending an email to his backers saying he was outraged by the gall of Rubio and others.
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King said he was reacting to a report Thursday of recent or upcoming fundraising visits to New York by Rubio of Florida, as well as Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, the former GOP vice-presidential candidate -- all of whom voted no on Sandy aid.
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The email echoed King's angry threat after House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) canceled a New Year's Day vote on $60.2 billion in Sandy aid. At the time, King called it a "cruel knife in the back" and said anyone who gave money to GOP candidates "should have their head examined."
Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) ended up holding votes in which the Sandy aid passed, and King said Thursday he holds nothing against them.
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A Linwood, Minn. woman believes a thief stole donations from an event in Wyoming, Minn. intended to raise funds for her medical bills and a future lung transplant.
Similar thefts at July weddings in Anoka County prompt one to question if the thefts could be related, though that possibility remains unclear.
Heidi Willcocks has been dealing with a major respiratory condition called Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis, which means she's allergic to the most common family of molds.
"My day pretty much depends on how well I can breathe and what comes in the mail for bills," Willcocks said.
She depends on pulmonary vest therapy and a nebulizer each day.
"We're just trying to control my body's allergic reaction to it, so far the medication that we tried which cost $1,600 a month didn't work," she said.
Willcocks told FOX 9 News she makes several visits to the doctor every month. She says hopes to one day receive a lung transplant. Last Sunday, her husband's colleagues organized a barn dance benefit held to help give Willcocks some financial relief.
The couple breathed a little easier after the successful event, until they got home and realized they only had three checks in the card box.
"We figured at somebody at some point in time, somebody got into the card box, turned it upside down, reached in, grabbed wheat they could and ran," husband Jeff Willcocks said.
Jeff Willcocks is an EMT and North Memorial, and the hospital was set to match a portion of donations.
"We had to photocopy the checks, so Monday when we took a copy of just three checks into his boss she's like, 'Wait a minute, what about the donations from so and so and so and so?'"
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Version control in the studio
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Orange is not a huge studio, but of course we still need proper technical setup for fluent workflow. By putting the six workstations and a fileserver in place, connected via a gigabit ethernet, the basic infrastructure was built during the first weeks. Pre-production began using a plain shared filesystem, but now as we entered production phase in the sense that scenes are put together for the animatic, we decided to use a versioning system instead.
A major reason is ensuring that no-one ever destroys work by others, which can happen easily with filesystems by simply saving an older version over a newer one made by someone else in the meantime. But our tech-savvy animation director Bassam figured that even advanced features like branching, i.e. making an alternative version of the movie-in-the-making, might be useful later for e.g. testing changes in the main characters.
We chose Subversion (svn), a popular CVS replacement, as it is friendly for basic operations such as renaming files. It will be interesting to see how well it works for blend files and other animation source data, such as large textures,and whether it fits in the way artists work individually and in collaboration.
Version control systems have been mostly made with software development in mind, and are commonly used by programmers, but nothing prevents using them for other kinds of data too. We do have experience of having blend files in cvs and svn repositories from open source
games, like from the Freedroid project where Basse has contributed, and from Soya-using Slune, Balazar and Overdrive (Soya3d can use Blender to open .blend files, so the cvs versions of the games get the models and character animations straight from blends). Everything has worked ok there, so we dared to make this decision..
With almost only binary data, we do not get the informative 'diffs', i.e. the information about changes made in a particular commit (save to the repository), that versioning systems give for text based software source files. But the commit messages, i.e. the info that the person who makes a change / adds a new file to the repository must write when committing, do still give info about what has changed where (as long as the guys keep up writing them properly! :)
I'm used to using the command line, but some of the others prefer GUI tools (and me too sometimes). On Linux, we are using both Gnome and KDE Desktop environments. For KDE there seems to be a nice plugin for the Konqueror browser / file manager, called ksvn, that I'll try. On Gnome Bassam tried one Nautilus script which didn't seem to work too well (it showed the svn commands also for files that were not in any svn working directory). But eSVN seems ok, so that'll probably serve Lee who's used to GUIs and using Gnome now (although eSVN uses qt if of course works in Gnome too).
On the macs, guys are now using a Finder plugin (which is open source) that works nicely for basic operations. For advanced operations, an open source macosx app called svnX seems great: when looking at the log, and selecting some commit/revision, the integrated browser shows that version of the project, and let's the user open an old version of any file from there. I wonder if that, probably Cocoa-using, svnX tool would be easy to port to GNUStep..
We are still using the file share (samba) for non-versioned files, like reference photo collections, and also for saving rendered animations. The idea is to keep the production folder in the svn repository clean from extra data, but with all the necessary files for rendering, so that we can use Subversion also for synching with the render farm in the U.S. later on.
For the future, it might be interesting to investigate if blend files could be somehow 'diffable', although it may be that the range of operations done in 3d modelling and animation can not be captured in that way. Concerning using binary data, Subversion seems better fit than CVS, and reports even using binary diffing so conserving the full history might not take an awful lot of extra space. I haven't looked how well it is actually able to diff e.g. blend files in this space-preserving sense, nor don't know if they are suitable for such diffing at all.
So as it is, we seem to have a working solution, and the animatic progresses! *knocked-on-wood*
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29 Responses to "Version control in the studio"
Nathan Letwory said on 29 Sep, 2005:
Cool! On GUI clients for subversion, on Windows you can get TortoiseSVN (http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org)
Jerry said on 29 Sep, 2005:
Very interesting. I'll try too the SVN (on Gnome, so probably i'll try eSvn), it seems better then CVS and very useful to recreate the history files. Thanks for sharing your solutions!
Rui Campos said on 29 Sep, 2005:
I am also preparing a project similar to this one, it will start February next year and will last aproximatelly 11 months, since it will be mostly online. The team will only be together "live" for just about a month during the whole project.
The project is similar to Orange, but the movie will be done with several 3D applications (I will mostly use Blender) and rendered in Pixie (Renderman Compatible). Also with one big difference, the movie will be done entirely by Portuguese artists.
I am also targeting to use SVN for version control, but I will go further, we will do an application to manage the whole process behind the making of the animation/movie, using SVN as the backend we will build the whole frontend to manage the creative process, the development process and all other roles needed for this sort of production.
The application will be hosted at SourceForge, starting from February the 1st, it won't be of much help for Orange, but if "Orange 2″ will ever be done it will be as use then.
What I mean is, I know your residents team is short, but are you going to develop something to manage the whole process, or will you use different tools to do it?
Also, I would like to have as much feedback from you guys as possible, since I am going to be developing an OSS Application to manage a similar project.
Will meet with you at BlendConf … I will be the guy bugging you for feedback :)
Omar said on 29 Sep, 2005:
Still on Kde, network operations are more transparents and completes in Konqueror, moreover, Kde is the best desktop eVer :)
Anyway, it's interesting as approach for managing files in a movie production.
best regards!
Tom Musgrove said on 29 Sep, 2005:
Ton hinted at least weeks meeting of plans for an 'Orange2′, so it looks like it is planned, but no official word,
Jar said on 29 Sep, 2005:
For gnome you could use:
Omar said on 29 Sep, 2005:
Gnome can't bite correctly, its component gnome-vfs is so ugly…
Enrique said on 29 Sep, 2005:
Hey we did the same thing over at blenderprojects.com evertime you take a file, modify it, and re-upload it it produces a timestamp added to the name. This way we have a version for each stage of a model. Large files like the basescene are updated by the user working on that file.I believe we are on Basecene v7 right now. Soon to be v8 after today. This way if someone modifies a file and we dont like it we can go back 1 version and it is not lost. This has saved us many times already.
Frank said on 30 Sep, 2005:
Are you aware of http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/ ? I integrated with subversion, some interest project tracking features and is written in python. Would be interesting if someone ehanced the python based diff functionality to leverage blender to produce a ".blend" diff either graphically or meta data display. Not sure if possible or useful, but would be an interesting approach for collaborative media projects. Maybe even evolve into a wiki engine for blender based media projects in similar spirit to video concept of http://www.annodex.net/. Just some ideas from an outsider… :-)
And let me re-iterate all the praise, Orange is an awsome project!! Blender is an awsome tool!!
NeARAZ said on 30 Sep, 2005:
Subversion is cool, but has some issues with large binary files. E.g. it tries to compress everything them before sending on the wire, which is pointless for most of the binary data (most binary files don't compress that well anyway). But obviously SVN is still much better than CVS on that front.
If you want a really fast solution, try Perforce. I know that most game developers use that for art assets (big games - where data with file histories is terabytes), and it's fast and scales well. I think it's free for non-commercial projects (but you'd have to check that).
Toni said on 30 Sep, 2005:
Frank, sure, I was very happy about trac in the previous project I was (and still am, hopefully doing Blender integration :), working on , the interactive Python notebooks.
In fact, installed trac on our internal svn server yesterday, but had some strange problem with apache config .. even though enabled cgi handling in all the ways that could find, it still shows the Python source, so gotta fix that at some point. Haven't used apache that much anymore lately so am not too clear about all of it.
I actually did not know earlier that trac was in Python, but had assumed Perl or something, so it was a pleasent surprise. Exactly because there are all kinds of interesting possibilities for integration.. keep the ideas flowing! :)
NeARAZ, thanks for your remark on Subversions problems with large binary files. As I told, we are not using it for video, but it might still become an issue with large textures, and I guess blend files can grow large too with complex models and animation data. I have been following (lurking over the shoulders :) the commit processes, and it has seemed ok so far, but surely compression (within our 1GB network in this room) is pointless. Is there an option to turn it off?
Might check out Perforce, thanks for the hint. Also looked a bit into Alienbrain. But I guess more interesting for us is to get open source tools, like Subversion or something else, to work in a suitable manner..
Jar said on 30 Sep, 2005:
Another multiplatform client that fill good also in gnome is svn-workbench: http://pysvn.tigris.org/
Bassam said on 1 Oct, 2005:
Jar, I had problems with svn-workbench… I'm not at work right now, but I got some errors running it, and ended up switching to the command line instead. Still, it's an attractive gui, and I think some people might appreciate it. (have to solve the issues first)
kemikazi said on 1 Oct, 2005:
It all seems to be coming along nicely; will there be an Orange presence at the Blender Conference?
I'm very much a Blender newbie but I do appreciate the significance of what Orange represents and I'm thinking of making the trip across from London for the Conference - will there be sneak previews of the movie?
NeARAZ said on 1 Oct, 2005:
Toni: do whatever you want, just don't use Alienbrain. I've yet to see any person who uses it and likes it at the same time :)
For a related discussion, see http://lists.midnightryder.com/pipermail/sweng-gamedev-midnightryder.com/2005-March/003038.html thead (SCM to manage binary asset).
Matt said on 3 Oct, 2005:
kemikazi: Yep, there sure will be! We will have a couple of sessions presenting work, tips, info whatever. Check the schedule for more details: http://www.blender.org/cms/Program.666.0.html
The conferences are usually a lot of fun anyway, very worthwhile to come!
George Bell said on 4 Oct, 2005:
I seem to remember talk of an XML file format for blender…if that ever happens I imagine that being able to diff would be relatively easy…
I think it would be good to look at integrating general support for a few different source control programs (VSS, CSS, Subversion, etc.)…as far as inteface goes, something along the lines of File->Open from Server, File->Save to Server…with some nice interface to quickly view any differences from the new/old files…
Also perhaps moving to (or allowing the use of) project files (I'm thinking more along the lines of each scene having it's own .blendscene file, or .blendmesh files with a main .blendproject file) it would be easier to check out/in large projects…especially when working over the net)…
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[…] As mentioned in this post from September, we're using Subversion on a server in the studio to manage the files and revisions. Among other nice features like being able to roll back to past versions of files, one of the greatest advantages for us that we weren't really anticipating, is that with the subversion commit and update workflow, everyone keeps a copy of the project's entire folder structure synced locally on their workstation's hard disk. This means that we can use relative paths in Blender (eg. //../lib/machine/blah/file.blend ) to reference the same .blend files, textures, sounds, etc, no matter what sort of folder structure the subversion tree is situated underneath, and without having to work off a (comparatively slow) network share. […]
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