On 06/28/2016 10:35 AM, Ahmad Abdullah wrote:
Hi all,
This is my first email to this group. I generally find the online
resources as well as LyX documentation very helpful. The only
exception to this rule is when it comes to version control. It took me
so much time to know how to install RCS on Windows. I basically
followed the steps given in the LyX wiki on how to install RCS for a
portable LyX installation. After I did that, I was able to do version
control easily. I have identical installations at the PC at home and
the one at work (work is windows 7 and home is windows 10).
Now my problem is actually that I use my OneDrive to save my LyX
document. I use my OneDrive so I have access to the document both at
work and at home. So here is a typical scenario I am facing: I am at
work, saved the document on my OneDrive and then checked in all
changes. After that I go back home, the problem arises. When I open
the document I saved at work with the LyX installation at home, LyX at
home doesn’t recognize the last check in that I committed at work and
I still have to check in the last change (LyX at home says the
document is not locked). So I try to check in the last change, and
then LyX complains saying that “Some error happened while ci, can’t
check in the document”. Basically what is happening I can’t check in
any changes made at home to the same RCS repo (the *MyDoc.lyx,v* file)
I created at work, i.e., I have to save the document with a new name
and start a new version control in it which means I will have to lose
all history in the RCS repo; a bad idea obviously.
My question is whether any one saw this before. What should I do so
that I can check in to same RCS repo both at home and at work without
the need to re-save the same document over and over again.
This is a problem with RCS, not with LyX.
If I were you, I'd set up a free git account somewhere, e.g., gitlab,
and use that. Then you don't need OneDrive or whatever. You can push
your changes to yout git account from home, then pull them at work, and
vice versa.
Alternatively, if you really want to use OneDrive, then you should put
the entire directory where your RCS repo lives on it.
Richard
Best Regards,
Ahmad Abdullah
