Hi Abdel, Sorry for the general density. I'm an infant amongst men when it comes to most programming things.
>> Hmm. I'm curious to hear more details on how this would work. Would all >> documents use this by default, > > No > >> or would it be something that the user would enable? > > Yes > >> Also, how would we handle the user interface? > > The user won't see git at all. The user would see a new embedded lyx format, > we can call it elyx for example. Okay, this makes a great deal more sense. >> I know it is a wonderful tool, but git is a very complicated beast. I've >> just barely started to wrap my head around it. When I tried to get >> colleagues to use it, there was a minor revolt. The benefit of the VCS >> integration now is that it is simple and transparent to the user. Adding a >> managed git interface might make things much more complicated, I'm not sure >> that would be a good development. > > I am not talking about VCS integration at all. That makes sense. i wasn't sure if this was a discussion about embedding git into LyX or making use of a subset of git features. Completely clear now. > You are free to add bzr integration into LyX :-) I might just look into that. But I've already got an ambitious things I want to add in the next year. Not sure I'm ready to sign up for any others ;) Cheers, Rob
