On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:04:12PM +0200, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >> The adavantage is to have a server, which looks intuive. VCS seems to >> have a non flat learning curve and then it is not clear to me how to >> interchange files, by email? > > Typically the VCS tool would take care of interchanging the data. Maybe > an example of how VCS is used in the LyX development is in place. The > source code is stored in a 'repository' on a server (aussie.lyx.org). > Developers can then use the VCS tool to get a local copy of all the > files. When a developer has changed the files, he can 'commit' the new > version of the files to the repository on the server (using the VCS). > Other developers can then use the tool to update their copies of the > files. > > If LyX has support for the VCS tool that you use, these actions > (checkout, commit, update) can all be done from within LyX.
Isn't the problem _merging_ of changes, or, equivalently, resolving of conflicts? Andre'
