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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! > Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, > along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness > and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
