"Nicolas Richard" <theonewiththeevill...@yahoo.fr> writes: > I use one trick which might be of interest to some people : when I have > a dropbox folder with text (in my case, these are .tex and related > files) files that will be worked on collaboratively, I first follow > these steps in the directory : > > dropbox exclude add .git > git init > git add . > git commit -m "Initial commit" > > (it is important that the first step comes first, this avoids the .git > directory from being synched to everyone sharing the folder) > > From that moment on, I can monitor changes using git diff which I find > much easier (in particular thank to magit) than Dropbox's own > facilities. Everytime there are new chages, I usually commit them in > order to have some history saved locally (though less complete than the > history in dropbox, since I probably won't commit after every single > change).
Thats a nice way to enable Emacs/Org-mode/Magit users to work with fellows from the Microsoft universe - thanks for the tip. -- cheers, Thorsten
