From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nicolas Richard" Subject: Re: How to deal with small projects which are often changing their status/ person Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:39:51 +0100 Message-ID: <87sj5szyl4.fsf@yahoo.fr> References: <87a9s0apj1.fsf@googlemail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42344) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxlZe-00068V-Rn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:07 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxlZb-0007W4-M8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:06 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxlZb-0007U9-GE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:40:03 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TxlZq-0005As-8Y for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:40:18 +0100 Received: from geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be ([164.15.131.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:40:18 +0100 Received: from theonewiththeevillook by geodiff-mac3.ulb.ac.be with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:40:18 +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 Thorsten Jolitz writes: > If you/your fellow workers don't use GIT or another VCS, there is still > dropbox - put your project text files in your dropbox folder and share > them with other, there are automatic backups of older versions by > Dropbox. 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). (As a side note : another way to use git + dropbox is to have your .git directory sync'd between your different computers, but I don't like this very much, and obviously this would be for a completely different purpose.) -- Nico.