Git in the browser via GitHub has been very useful in helping some of our entrenched IT folks start using Git to manage system config files. Yes, in the long run they should just learn Git, but in the meantime this allows us to use version control at all with them, which is a great thing.
We fake our designer using Git. He has access to each repo's view and static asset files through a Samba share. Every afternoon we ssh in and commit his changes. When he says stuff is in good shape for the next release we merge his branch to staging. And whenever it's a good time, we merge stag down onto his branch so he has all the newest stuff.
SparkleShare (http://sparkleshare.org/) uses Github to replicate Dropbox functionality; could you use the SparkleShare client on your designer's workstation so that when assets are created/updated/saved, they are automatically committed to your repo?
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Git in the browser via GitHub has been very useful in helping some of our entrenched IT folks start using Git to manage system config files. Yes, in the long run they should just learn Git, but in the meantime this allows us to use version control at all with them, which is a great thing.
At my last company we got our artists using git. We set up projects for art assets, which we included as submodules in our main project.
We fake our designer using Git. He has access to each repo's view and static asset files through a Samba share. Every afternoon we ssh in and commit his changes. When he says stuff is in good shape for the next release we merge his branch to staging. And whenever it's a good time, we merge stag down onto his branch so he has all the newest stuff.
So far it's worked great.
SparkleShare (http://sparkleshare.org/) uses Github to replicate Dropbox functionality; could you use the SparkleShare client on your designer's workstation so that when assets are created/updated/saved, they are automatically committed to your repo?
Thanks, I'll look into that.
Awesome! Let me know how it works out!