On 06/30/2016 07:10 PM, Ahmad Abdullah wrote:
This is just a recap and for future reference ( I will include it in
the wiki as well). So it seems that I can only check in from Home only
after I checkout the last version I checked in at work. Meaning that,
if I need to be able to do version control at home on the same file, I
must check in all changes I made at work before going home or else I
will lose all of them because at home I have to check out the last
successfully checked in version before being able to do any version
control. Even if I save my changes at work without checking them in, I
will lose all of them at home because I have to check out the last
successfully checked in version. This is a weird bug in RCS as far as
I see.
RCS was a very early VCS, and it has a lot of shortcomings.
Richard
Best Regards,
Ahmad Abdullah
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From: ahmad.abdul...@msn.com
To: kor...@lyx.org; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: RCS Version Control on Windows
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:54:05 +0000
Actually I couldn't wait the whole week to try git. I installed git on
my work pc, created a sample LyX file then created a git repo using
the git client (the LyX document resides in a folder in my OneDrive
and the .git folder repo is within this folder). Once I do this and
open the document in LyX, LyX detects the version control. I added few
more lines and checked in the new document. I then go back home and
installed git to see if I can continue checking in to the document. So
I open the document with LyX, add few more lines and then check in and
Voila! It works. I even can check out and compare revisions. Note that
I don't interact with git anymore after I setup the repo.
The limitation of this approach is that you have to set up the git
repo before you can do version control on the document but I can live
with that. It would be a neat solution, if LyX in future versions
ships with git and enable the user to register the document in the
background without the user leaving the program to create his own repo
(basically a small script that calls git internally without the user
having to interact with git directly). Anyway thanks you all so much
specially Kornel for your help. I will definitely submit a wiki on that.
Best Regards,
Ahmad Abdullah
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From: ahmad.abdul...@msn.com
To: kor...@lyx.org; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: RE: RCS Version Control on Windows
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:43:58 +0000
I will give this a trial this week and will tell you what happens.
Best Regards,
Ahmad Abdullah
> From: kor...@lyx.org
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: RCS Version Control on Windows
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:05:58 +0200
>
> Am Dienstag, 28. Juni 2016 um 20:49:50, schrieb Ahmad Abdullah
<ahmad.abdul...@msn.com>
> > Are
> > you saying that I can still check in and check out LyX documents
using
> > File/Version Control menu if I use git? I am not aware of that at
all.
> > If so, please point me to something that tells me how. I have heard
> > about the support for git in LyX but never found something that
explains
> > the process.
>
> Provided you have a checkout from a git repo.
> From lyx you can open a file which is under git control.
> Then use e.g.
> File->Version Control->Show History
>
> > Best Regards,
> > Ahmad Abdullah
>
> Kornel
