Many tools fail to pass the recommendability threshold. There are two reasons why: poor capability or poor visibility.
Many tools garner consistent complaints from ThoughtWorkers about their lack of capability. (ThoughtWorkers being what they are, all tools, including the preferred set, get some complaints. Those behind the threshold get mostly complaints.)
(Link: MF Bliki: VersionControlTools)
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Version control for Adobe Photoshop
PixelNovel Timeline is a revolutionary version control system built for designers who use Adobe Photoshop. Timeline features a unique user interface that allows you to always see the file’s history and save file versions and get file versions without switching from the main Photoshop window.
(Link: Timeline – Version control for designers – PixelNovel)
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Feature flags and flippers mean we don’t have to do merges, and that all code (no matter how far it is from being released) is integrated as soon as it is committed. Deploys become smaller and more frequent; this leads to bugs that are easier to fix, since we can catch them earlier and the amount of changed code is minimized.
This style of development isn’t all rainbows and sunshine. We have to restrict it to the development team because occasionally things go horribly wrong; it’s easy to imagine code that’s in development going awry and corrupting all your data. Also, after launching a feature, we have to go back in the code base and remove the old version (maintaining separate versions of all features on Flickr would be a nightmare). But overall, we find it helps us develop new features faster and with fewer bugs.
(Link: Flickr Developer Blog » Flipping Out)
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Forget everthing you know about branches. Your knowledge of what a ‘branch’ means in Subversion is poisonous, especially if you internalized it pre-1.5, like I did, before Subversion finally grew some basic merge tracking capabilities. Forget how painful it was to merge, forget how long it took to switch branches, forget how impossible it was to merge from a branch more than once – Git gives you a whole new world when it comes to branching and merging.
(Link: Why You Should Switch from Subversion to Git)
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This article will help you to understand why version control is important for designers and help you to start using it for your projects.
(Link: The Ultimate Guide to Version Control for Designers)
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Intro to Git for Web Designers
Unless you’re a one person web shop with no team to collaborate with, you’ve experienced the frustration that goes along with file sharing. No matter how hard you try, when multiple people are working on a single project without a version control system in place things get chaotic.
If you work with developers on the buildout and implementation of websites, the merge between front-end templates and back-end functionality can be a scary black hole
