Collaboration ( was: Re: lyx 2.3.7 running on a Mac Ventura 13.6.1)

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 11/01/2024 à 17:32, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :
> Emiliano's remark about version management, from 2017, seems out of 
> date. I use git with LyX all the time. It was extremely helpful when I 
> was making the final changes to a book recently. It allowed me to check 
> and make sure that the only changes I'd made were the ones I thought I'd 
> made. The real issue there, it seems to me, is that most such tools are 
> line based, so changing a single character here and there can lead to 
> the changes looking more significant than they are. But that's true with 
> LaTeX, too, to some extent. It's a bigger problem with LyX, because the 
> line breaks in the saved version of the file can be completely different 
> from that point on in the paragraph.

Note that, starting with 2.4, the .lyx files break text at punctuation, 
which should play better with git. NewInLyX24 says:

* LyX now uses "semantic linefeeds" for text in LyX files. This allows 
to have better diffs for documents stored in version-control systems.

JMarc