[ANNOUNCE] vc bundle v0.5 -- version control for TeX and friends

[Stephan Hennig]

The vc bundle
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This is a script based approach to version control for TeX
documents.  It works more reliably than keyword substitution
based approaches, since it tracks all files in a working
copy, not only .tex files.

The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX.  Currently,
Bazaar, Git and Subversion are supported.


What's special about the vc bundle?
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* Common version control packages for LaTeX use keyword
  substitution to access revision information.  That
  approach doesn't work reliably in the presence of
  non-.tex files, e.g., graphics or graphic sources that
  are processed by an external tool.
* The author is unaware of any alternative version control
  packages for plain TeX.
* The author is unaware of any alternative LaTeX version
  control packages that support Bazaar or Git.


v0.5 (2008-04-21)
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Incompatible changes:
* Don't write sensitive information to vc.tex, by default
  (see appendix A).
  - Bazaar:
      \BZRBranchNick
  - Subversion:
      \SVNPath, \SVNName, \SVNUrl, \SVNNodeKind, \SVNRepositoryRoot


Getting the software
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The latest version of the vc bundle can be found at CTAN:support/vc.

<URL:http://www.ctan.org/get/support/vc.zip>

Happy TeXing!
Stephan Hennig