Thanks for the information about VCS's. I agree CVS is outdated, but we use it mostly for legacy reasons --- all of our codebase is in CVS along with papers going back many years. For my other projects, I use git or mercurial as a VCS.
My question was originally more oriented toward handling Org-mode files with collaborators who don't use Org-mode, regardless of the VCS. Those collaborators are only comfortable modifying the LaTeX document itself, and checking in changes to the LaTeX document won't update the Org-mode file. There have already been a few good suggestions, but if others have some system worked out, please chime in :). Chris On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Karl Voit <devn...@karl-voit.at> wrote: >> >> * chris.m.mal...@gmail.com <chris.m.mal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm curious how you work on Org-mode papers for publication with >> > collaborators? In particular, do all of your collaborators know and use >> > Org-mode themselves? Our current method is just to use ordinary LaTeX >> > files >> > in a CVS repository for collaboration. >> >> CVS is very ... old if not ancient. >> >> For collaboration with LaTeX documents I am using SVN[1] as a >> centralized version control system (VCS) if my collaborators are not >> tech savvy. There are lots of handy tools available like [2] that >> made it possible to convince any ordinary user from using SVN. >> >> If I am working with tech savvy people, I tend to use git [3] >> instead. It is a *decentralized* VCS with much more possibilities >> and it is a bit harder to learn. But if you are familiar with git, >> you get advantages from offline commits, partial commits, and very >> good internal merging capabilities that solve most of the LaTeX >> integration process automatically. >> >> 1. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Subversion_(software) >> 2. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/TortoiseSVN >> 3. https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Git_(software) > > Just to add from the Linux side: > http://www.rabbitvcs.org/ > very similar to TortoiseSVN - also works for git. > Rainer >> >> -- >> Karl Voit >> >> > > > > -- > Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, > UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) > > Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology > Stellenbosch University > South Africa > > Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 > Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 > Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 > > Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 > > email: rai...@krugs.de > > Skype: RMkrug > >