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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by jianshen on Sunday February 27, 2011 @12:32PM (#2268287)
Source control is also not part of a designer's natural workflow because the options aren't that great (usually backups on a NAS is all there is and a few proprietary snapshot plugins from Adobe. Kaleidoscope looks the most interesting). Also, svn branch numbers or git hashes don't make nearly as much sense to designers as "HiFi Mockup iPhone4 Right Aligned Inbox.ai" when they want to backtrack or compare current "in the running" designs.

I'd love to see the OSS community develop better source control software targeted towards designers. :)

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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by vog on Monday February 28, 2011 @05:02AM (#2270750)
> svn branch numbers or git hashes don't make nearly as much sense to designers as "HiFi Mockup iPhone4 Right Aligned Inbox.ai"

That's what the commit comments are for.

BTW, programmers also prefer reading commit comments, commit dates and author names. They don't read hashes. (Although they sometimes copy&paste them because they are short and unique.)

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