On 24/09/2008 01:39, Christian Ridderström wrote:
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Andre Poenitz wrote:
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?
Indeed, but as I understood Uwe's simplest use case, only one person
would actively be editing the document. In this case merging isn't
necessary.
I could have misunderstood him of course, and I also think that with
five authors, you really do want to be able to do merging. However, if
they work on different chapters, maybe the automatic merging will be
good enough?
Maybe yes. But you'll need a method to 'lock' paragraphs.
As a side note, I was in the open source manifestation yesterday in
Paris. This is a very corporate event, everybody there talks about their
new colloborative methods based on some wysiwyg wiki engine. So yes,
collaborative editing is the new religion in the corporate world :-)
Abdel.
