From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:53:15 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <87pqqclc38.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87ei6zpbor.fsf@rapttech.com.au> <2p8vx4550z.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <87lj11dhm9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pqqda3a4.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87d3md89mh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298890644 2443 80.91.229.12 (28 Feb 2011 10:57:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 10:57:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 28 11:57:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pu0mz-0008Ah-S3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:57:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41776 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pu0al-0005ct-8C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:44:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news-transit.tcx.org.uk!news2.arglkargh.de!noris.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!newsspool4.arcor-online.net!news.arcor.de.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:oPBEFBVE7AniLBHORkKeO0o+GV8= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Feb 2011 10:53:19 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: d86d0b45.newsspool3.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=5LgK_QLi60o:i=48; n?Z:`McF=Q^Z^V3h4Fo<]lROoRa8kFC5a2S List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79561 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >>>>> This is nothing to do with being an academic. What happens when, for >>>>> instance, a novel is being published? The author sends it to the >>>>> publisher, who sends back a copy with various changes, which the author >>>>> then either accepts, accepts in some modified form, or rejects. This >>>>> process is then iterated several times. >>>> And this process does not involve a CVS repository. >>> With me, it nowadays usually involves a git repository. I used CVS >>> previously, but that is less convenient. >> You're insane. > > No, we're just people using good tools for the job at hand. E.g. each > co-author has his branch and uses pull&push&merge to share its work with > the others. I do this for work I do quite by myself (like theses and articles). Makes it much easier to keep track of work you do. Co-authors tend to use different (or no) version control, so even when I used CVS, the workflow tended to be that of a non-central version control system. I certainly would not have given others write access to my personal repositories. -- David Kastrup