On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Mark (my words) <elib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm new to git. I'm trying to develop a workflow for my creative writing. FWIW, I use git for just about every document I produce (report, paper, presentation). Most of the text is in LaTeX, notes using emacs's dot.org mode and sometime figures or pictures. I have one repo per "project" which is sometimes loosely defined. I don't use git submodules or similar but I do factor out some files to a "common" project (eg logos that get reused in many presentations). Even if I'm the only author it is useful to commit at points like "first draft", "draft for initial comments", "comments from Fred addressed", "final draft", "final final draft" and "final final final dammit I mean it this time draft", etc. When I collaborate on a document I find it essential to put it in git (or other VC). Even if the other user doesn't use git (or other VC) it is helpful to track the contributions they feed you and avoid inadvertently stomping on text that they have modified. I agree with the others that auto-commits would give more problems than help as you wouldn't know which commit was meaningful. I guess you could label all auto commits with an empty message and then look for manual commits with a more meaningful comment (or with an explicit tag) but it's kind of a stretch. For your poems, if they tend to be short, I'd probably come up with some kind of collection rule and put each one in its own repo (eg. all cute bunny poems separate from all self-critical introspections). Oh, and one thing to be mindful of is text lines, particularly if you are using an unformatted source (like LaTeX, HTML, etc). Git wants to compare based on lines so make them as short and atomic as possible. Do try to use line breaks and not long monolithic lines as it makes comparing differences that much easier. This matters a lot when you need to merge two versions (eg two branches or incorporating stuff being fed by had from collaborators). -Brett. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To post to this group, send email to git-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/git-users?hl=en.
