Re: How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person

[Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@googlemail.com>]

"Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevillook@yahoo.fr> writes:

> I use one trick which might be of interest to some people : when I have
> a dropbox folder with text (in my case, these are .tex and related
> files) files that will be worked on collaboratively, I first follow
> these steps in the directory :
>
> dropbox exclude add .git
> git init
> git add .
> git commit -m "Initial commit"
>
> (it is important that the first step comes first, this avoids the .git
> directory from being synched to everyone sharing the folder)
>
> From that moment on, I can monitor changes using git diff which I find
> much easier (in particular thank to magit) than Dropbox's own
> facilities. Everytime there are new chages, I usually commit them in
> order to have some history saved locally (though less complete than the
> history in dropbox, since I probably won't commit after every single
> change).

Thats a nice way to enable Emacs/Org-mode/Magit users to work with
fellows from the Microsoft universe - thanks for the tip. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten