Using bzr with LaTeX

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Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote:
>> b) bzr makes collaboration
>> very simple; it is as simple as saying "I worked on the paper last
>> night; grab my latest changes from the repository"; c) being bzr
>> distributed I can, say, edit and work while commuting, keeping all the
>> history in my laptop, and then sync with my coauthors' changes when I
>> get to work.

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestions so far (and if you have any more, pls keep
them coming :) they are great)

The collaboration seemed interesting. Of course, not knowing anyone who
uses linux + latex + bzr in non-virtual world (eh), collaboration with
others is kinda hard.

But it still seems doable. For example, I give a copy of my paper to my
advisor, who makes corretions. It seems like I can than copy my bzr'd
source to another directory, make the advisor's changes to the source,
than merge the two if there are no conflicts.

>From the documentation[1], the commands look something like this:
$ cd /path/to/mysource
$ cd ../      # sorry for the redundancy
$ bzr branch mysource advisorchanges
do the changes
$ cd mysource
$ bzr diff -r branch:../advisorchanges
$ bzr merge ../advisorchanges/

Does this look about right?

Also, do you use launchpad as your repository to sync your laptop and
other computers?

And 2 last questions:
* how do you revert to an earlier revision (that is, you commited your
50th revision, and now you want to revert to your 5th revision)?
* can you revert that (ie do above, than go back from your 5th revision
to your 50th revision etc)?

Thanks again :)

[1] http://bazaar-vcs.org/TheIndependant
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