Latex project with parent-child files

Russel Winder russel at russel.org.uk
Thu Aug 11 02:07:19 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 16:41 -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote:
[ . . . ]
> Perhaps the desire is to be able to follow the evolution of a
> specific chapter more easily, without getting entangled by other
> chapters' changes?  That's the only thing that comes to mind for me.

It just seems like beginning to implement CVS using Bazaar as
infrastructure?

> Even in that case, you could put all chapters in one Bazaar branch
> (versioning the entire dissertation as a single entity), and then do
> 'bzr log chap1' or 'bzr qlog chap1' etc. to see the log of a specific
> chapter.
> 
> For one thing, keeping the entire document in one Bazaar branch means
> you can uniquely identify a version of the document with the Bazaar
> revno or revid.  This makes backups and release management easier.

Which was the whole reason for Subversion replacing CVS I suspect :-)

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