YES! I discovered that the hard way. I also created a wiki for that at
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/VersionControlInstallationAndUsage
Best Regards,
Ahmad Abdullah
> Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 16:51:35 -0700
> From: sa...@lyx.org
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: RCS Version Control on Windows
>
> Richard Heck wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Actually in current LyX setup RCS is more feature rich than git and given
> it's storage simplicity it's often better alternative than git.
>
> Things change if you want collaborate or store also figures.
>
> Pavel
