On Jul 9, 2008, at 1:42 PM, Derick Fay wrote:
A scenario likely to occur would be that I will keep the master.bib
file
in an SVN repository, travel to some library without wi-fi internet
access with my PowerBook, discover some new books that I add to my
working copy of master.bib, make some changes to particular pubs that
already feature linked and autofiled files, save and commit my
changes
when I have internet access again. Would be great if all the links
were
intact afterwards.
This is a bit off-topic but I have been thinking about using
subversion to manage versioning etc. on several writing projects.
Everything I've seen seems to be oriented towards team / multi-user
scenarios but it also seems that people use it for single-authored
projects. Stephan (and others!) , do you have any recommendations on
SVN workflow, helper apps, shortcomings etc? Prefs. for SVN vs.
Mercurial or other alternatives?
thanks
Derick
First, if you are going to use svn, you can get the binaries from:
http://www.collab.net/downloads/community/
which provides binaries for OS X in an installer that is built by the
developers of svn. If you have trouble you can email the support list
and you'll get a quick answer.
Second, svnX makes a GUI client that's good for everyday use, but
leaves you to the command line for some things. There is a non-open-
source, non-free app called "Versions" coming out soon which might be
worth looking into.
Third, there are problems with Numbers and Pages files, if you use
those. They are not compatible with svn. I won't go into details but
the bottom line is that these "files" act sometimes as directories and
that this confuses svn. I gather that other version control systems
don't have this problem.
Here http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/20/iwork-bundles-broken is a
blog entry about this.
The problem can be solved apparently with some scripts.
For TeX and bib files svn works fine, though.
Fourth---for the single user, it is useful because it provides "time
machine" like capabilities, and it's useful for synchronizing your own
work across machines.
-Adam
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Iona College
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