I write musical scores for plays, and I often collaborate with other people on the scores. Subversion, I've discovered, is a perfect tool for this: my collaborators and I can effortlessly switch between Windows and Mac platforms, lock files, see commit mails, and so on. (Recently, I've even converted over a professional team of music-typesetters to Subversion, and they're loving it too.) Having the history of a score is amazing. We're constantly revising the music as the rehearsal process goes on. Instead of making backups, I just change things however I want and sit comfortably, knowing that Subversion is remembering everything. Today I was asked to resurrect a passage of music that had been deleted a week ago. I asked TortoiseSVN to show me the log of the file: all the versions displayed in a nice list. I right-clicked an older version of the file, and selected "open" from the drop-down menu. Poof, the old score popped up. I copied the old music passage to the clipboard, then pasted it into a newest version of the file. Sometimes GUI tools really *are* better than command-line tools. Stephan, Luebbe: thanks for such a great GUI!
