From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Malone Subject: Re: Collaborating with other people (was: Org-mode as a replacement for LaTeX) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:46:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20cf303dd274a4243904a6ef94c1@google.com> <2011-07-01T13-02-58@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:49457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcezN-0005YY-8S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:46:38 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcezJ-0004Sa-3Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:46:37 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com ([209.85.214.169]:45927) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QcezI-0004SW-Jj for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 10:46:32 -0400 Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so3671040iwn.0 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:46:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rainer M Krug Cc: news1142@karl-voit.at, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Thanks for the information about VCS's. I agree CVS is outdated, but we use it mostly for legacy reasons --- all of our codebase is in CVS along with papers going back many years.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 wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Karl Voit wrote: >> >> * 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 us= e >> > 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. >> >> =A01. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Subversion_(softwar= e) >> =A02. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TortoiseSVN >> =A03. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Git_(software) > > Just to add from the Linux side: > =A0http://www.rabbitvcs.org/ > very similar to TortoiseSVN - also works for git. > Rainer >> >> -- >> Karl Voit >> >> > > > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biolog= y, > UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : =A0 =A0 =A0 +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: =A0 =A0 =A0 +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax (F): =A0 =A0 =A0 +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D): =A0 =A0+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: =A0 =A0 =A0Rainer@krugs.de > > Skype: =A0 =A0 =A0RMkrug > >