Hey sweet, thanks for those, Peter.

On Jul 9, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Peter Cowan wrote:

> I use mercurial, mostly because before leopard it was easiest to get a
> repository up and running on.  Leopard comes with SVN so this is less
> true now.  As for latex specific diff I've had luck with both of
> these.
>
> <http://www.jpaisley.com/software/ruby/rb-latex-diff/>
> <http://www.robmar.net/TexDiff/>
>
> Peter
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Mark Eli Kalderon <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> Multi-user workflows are readily adaptable to the single user if you
>> work at multiple sites (at home and at work, say). If you have a
>> repository on a server somewhere, you can access your files (and  
>> their
>> histories!) wherever you are.
>>
>> I used to use subversion. Now I use git. Most of the problems that I
>> had with subversion had to doing with merging. These have been
>> addressed in subversion 1.5.
>>
>> However, a case can be made for using distributed version control  
>> such
>> as git or mercurial especially wrt BibTeX files---to facilitate
>> sharing. See:
>>
>> http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/06/17/gitting-bibtex/
>> http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/git-bibs/
>>
>> All the best, Mark
>>
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