Can Alfresco intgerate with repositories like cvs and svn ?

[gokul_seenivasa]

Hi,

    Alfresco can be mapped ti local file system using CIFS.

     Like that Alfresco can be integrated with CVS and SVN repositories ?

     OR

    Any possibilties to move files from cvs to Alfresco ?

[mrogers]

No I don't think you can integrate with a CVS or SVN repository.

However Alfresco does support versioning and in particular the AVM store is similar to subversion.    It rather depends upon what your requirements are for version control.   Alfresco is a document management system first and foremost and provides functions like full text searching, content modelling and transformation.    SVN is a pure version control engine.

As a concrete example within Alfresco we have all the business type documents managed by Alfresco but Alfresco's source code lives within SVN!

[agovikar]

Hi morgers,


Is it possible to show document version history on CIFS client? We have a requirement to checkout the older versions of docs from windows explorer. Please let us know if there is any possibility to customize the desktop action scripts to implement this functionality.

[gokul_seenivasa]

Hi morgers,

   Thanks for ur reply.

[mrogers]

How can you see version history over CIFS?    CIFS had no concept of anything other than "the current version".

You could have a structure like the AVM mapping for CIFS in alfresco but that doesn't look anything like the flat filesystem that users expect.

Yes you can revert to an old version of a file on both Alfresco Explorer and Alfresco Share.     But that's nothing to do with CIFS.

[agovikar]

Hi mrogers,

Thanks for the quick reply. I understand that this functionality is not available in current Alfresco version. But as per our requirement this feature is very critical for the users.
Can this be implemented/customized in either CIFS/FTP/Webdav file share?

[mrogers]

How would you propose that this feature could work?   What is your idea?   More details please so we can discuss.

[agovikar]

Hi mrogers,


Thank you for the response. To be frank I have no idea how to implement this functionality. Our requirement is mainly to share the files between users through Shared drive. So they are looking for  checkin/checkout current as well as old versions of docs on right click of mouse like how it works in SVN. Our users are familiar with this kind of functionality available in other file share tools. I just started gathering more information on building context menu and development of custom desktop actions for the shared drive. Please let me know if you have any thoughts on this.

[mrogers]

So that's not exposing versions on a bare cifs filesystem.  Its running a client side application in front of the filesystem.  
If your users are familiar with certain apps then you should be able to do something equivalent with alfresco.   

For example you can access old versions of files via webdav or cmis.

[agovikar]

Hi morgers,

Could you please give more insight on how to enable it using CMIS. Actually after enabling passthrough authentication I am not able access webdav in my machine, so I could not verify the version checkout on webdav. Appreciate your help.