Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System

Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by frostysocks on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:33PM (#34602520)

The single, killer feature I'm looking for in a document management system (besides collaborative environment that we're used to from gdocs) is a way to stamp versions and have those be reviewed independently, with git like diffs across them.

Think gerrit for docs.

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Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by locustmostest on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:42PM (#34602649)

Do you mean document control, or diff on text contents?

For plain text, diff is do-able, but I don't know if comparing two PDFs can involve a detailed "diff" vs. a checksum, since the text could be the same but there's a change in layout, an image, etc.

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Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by jve on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:00PM (#34602885)

Word/docx with SharePoint/OneDrive has pretty nice comparison feature https://www.officetooltips.com/word_365/tips/compare_two_doc...

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Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by revskill on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @04:37PM (#34602562)

Then a webui over git itself is better solution ?

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Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by tremon on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @06:02PM (#34603619)

For official documents, you want more than just change tracking. You also want formal approvals and per-document versioning, and repository-wide tags and Acked-By: lines just don't cut it.

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Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by schmichael on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @05:20PM (#34603128)

Google Docs actually has this and hides it behind terrible UI/UX. You can "Name this version" of a doc, and there's a separate page to view versions (from which you can name versions as well).

The diffing isn't there, or at least not to the degree that code review tools offer.

I'm not sure the feature has evolved in years either. Definitely feels like one of those things a Google engineer threw into production one day, and it's never been considered again.

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Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by Terretta on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @08:59PM (#34605330)

Craft.do supports comments, versions, attribution of changes to authors, and rollback to prior versions.

https://www.craft.do

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Re:Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System by marcruser on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:52AM (#34606959)

One product I have come across that seems to do this well is Simul https://www.simuldocs.com/

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