Re: Collaborating with other people (was: Org-mode as a replacement for LaTeX)

[Chris Malone <chris.m.malone@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the information about VCS's.  I agree CVS is outdated, but
we use it mostly for legacy reasons --- all of our codebase is in CVS
along with papers going back many years.  For my other projects, I use
git or mercurial as a VCS.

My question was originally more oriented toward handling Org-mode
files with collaborators who don't use Org-mode, regardless of the
VCS.  Those collaborators are only comfortable modifying the LaTeX
document itself, and checking in changes to the LaTeX document won't
update the Org-mode file.

There have already been a few good suggestions, but if others have
some system worked out, please chime in :).

Chris

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:
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>> * chris.m.malone@gmail.com <chris.m.malone@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I'm curious how you work on Org-mode papers for publication with
>> > collaborators? In particular, do all of your collaborators know and use
>> > Org-mode themselves? Our current method is just to use ordinary LaTeX
>> > files
>> > in a CVS repository for collaboration.
>>
>> CVS is very ... old if not ancient.
>>
>> For collaboration with LaTeX documents I am using SVN[1] as a
>> centralized version control system (VCS) if my collaborators are not
>> tech savvy. There are lots of handy tools available like [2] that
>> made it possible to convince any ordinary user from using SVN.
>>
>> If I am working with tech savvy people, I tend to use git [3]
>> instead. It is a *decentralized* VCS with much more possibilities
>> and it is a bit harder to learn. But if you are familiar with git,
>> you get advantages from offline commits, partial commits, and very
>> good internal merging capabilities that solve most of the LaTeX
>> integration process automatically.
>>
>>  1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Subversion_(software)
>>  2. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TortoiseSVN
>>  3. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Git_(software)
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> Just to add from the Linux side:
>  http://www.rabbitvcs.org/
> very similar to TortoiseSVN - also works for git.
> Rainer
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>> Karl Voit
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