Thorsten Jolitz <tjol...@googlemail.com> writes: > If you/your fellow workers don't use GIT or another VCS, there is still > dropbox - put your project text files in your dropbox folder and share > them with other, there are automatic backups of older versions by > Dropbox.
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). (As a side note : another way to use git + dropbox is to have your .git directory sync'd between your different computers, but I don't like this very much, and obviously this would be for a completely different purpose.) -- Nico.
