From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thorsten Jolitz Subject: Re: How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:56:38 +0100 Message-ID: <871udcanl5.fsf@googlemail.com> References: <87a9s0apj1.fsf@googlemail.com> <87sj5szyl4.fsf@yahoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48404) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txlsn-0005qd-Re for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:59:56 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txlsm-0004z0-RD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:59:53 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56527) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Txlsm-0004yw-LL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:59:52 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Txlsy-0000db-1Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:00:04 +0100 Received: from e178054230.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.54.230]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:00:04 +0100 Received: from tjolitz by e178054230.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:00:04 +0100 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org "Nicolas Richard" 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