support git (mercurial) push and pull

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2022 at 08:56:17AM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >>> "SK" == Scott Kostyshak <skostysh at lyx.org> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 06:31:17PM +0100, Uwe Brauer wrote:
> >> 
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> Are there any plans that lyx could interact with git (or even
> >> mercurial), and could even push and pull to a server, say bitbucket or
> >> github or helix. That would be great for collaboration. 
> 
> > Hi Uwe,
> 
> > We do have some basic version control support (including Git, but I
> > don't think Mercurial).
> 
> Thanks. I am currently running lyx 2.3.6.1 as shipped within Ubuntu 16.04 (and cannot upgrade right due to a python problem I would face with other software I need).

Ah that is annoying! Good luck with that. Might as well wait to rip off the band aid until 22.04 is out anyway.

> When I register a file no version control system is offered and I learned lyx chose RCS (which I used for a long time and it is ok for a single file approach, but not suited for a multi file approach, nor can I push and have decent branching)
> 
> So in short where do I set up the VC system? I can't find anything in the configuration.

I'm not sure what's going on. Everything seems to work out of the box for me (Ubuntu 21.10). But I don't actually use LyX's integration with Git. For some reason I find it more convenient to use Git outside of LyX.

> BTW pity with mercurial since it is the better VC 😉

:) 

> I most interested to use it for collaboration via a server (a lot of my students use now overleaf for that purpose (and not having to install a lot of software)).

Yeah it would be great to have simultaneous editing for LyX. There were some steps toward that at some point a few years ago but it is a difficult feature to add.

There is LyX in the cloud: https://www.rollapp.com/app/lyx
But I haven't tried it.

Scott
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