On 12/17/20 4:59 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 12/17/20 4:45 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 12/17/20 11:22 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:15:17PM +0100, Matěj Cepl wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to persuade my wife to start using VCS for her
documents, and avoid pressing her to use command line for it. I
thought that just by running git init in the directory her
documents are stored, LyX would understand that I want to use git
exclusively, but it still suggests RCS. I have to git add and git
commit the document to make LyX understand my preferences.
Is there somewhere some option which would switch off RCS for her
forever?
Best,
Matěj
Hi Matěj,
From what I understand, the reason that things are the way they are in
LyX is that git was added "recently". I'm not sure about adding an
option/preference. In general, we are hesitant to add preferences like
this, and I believe you're the first one to ask for it.
One possibility that *might* satisfy you would be to default to Git if
RCS is not detected on the system. For example, on Linux if the command
"ci" is not available and the command "git" is available, LyX could
just
assume Git is intended and can do the setup. However, I'm not sure what
I think of that and I'm not sure what other LyX developers think of
that.
Although I'm also a gitophile, in my opinion the biggest downside to
choosing Git by default and to LyX doing "git init" is that Git can
create lots of files (in its internal .git directory). I do not know if
users would expect this and especially since using Dropbox is so
common,
users might be surprised and confused (by Dropbox syncing) from the
creation of so many files.
We could at least give users the choice when choosing "Version
Control> Register" of what to use. This could be as simple as a combo
box, right?
It would also be nice, I think, if we could detect if we're in a
directory controlled by git and, if so, regsiter the file using git.
This is as easy as checking the return value of 'git status'. With
svn, I think 'svn log' will work. I don't know about other cases.
OK, I see that this is supposed to work, but it doesn't work in all
cases. In particular, we look for .git/index, which will fail if we're
in a subdirectory (and presumably also for svn, which is handled the
same way). So that could be improved.
Obviously, we could just use the parent directory search thing. But is
there a reason not just to check the return value of "git status" etc? I
would think this was also an easier way to see if a file is under
version control. But perhaps it is less portable. Pavel, you must have
thought about this?
Riki
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