Nicol�s wrote: > > > As a sidenote: RCS has been (sort of) superseded by CVS a dozen years > > ago which in turn is in the process of being superseded by SVN as far > > as I can tell. Things might be bearable on a single-user system, though. > > > > Andre' > > > > Yes, but... can CVS or SVN be used with LyX. As far as I know there is > no way to specify the version control system LyX should use, and, as it > comes out-of-the-box, LyX calls rcs. In short, if you want to use CVS or > SVN you have to modify the code (If I am not wrong)
There may be no way in LyX to specify which one LyX uses, but as I just confirmed with a LyX document I have under CVS, LyX knows how to interface with CVS. I believe (have not looked in the LyX code) it makes the choice of which VCS to use based on the "meta data" directory available, i.e., is there an RCS directory or a CVS directory. Now as I have never used SVN, or looked in the LyX code, I don't know if SVN is supported. Also if you want, it is easy to migrate an RCS controlled file to CVS if it starts out as a stand alone thing and migrates to a larger project by a) release the locks in the RCS,v file, and b) copy the ,v file into the CVS repository directory. -- Todd Denniston Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane) Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
