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Re:ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf by y4mi on Thursday July 20, 2017 @01:11PM (#14814382)
Both sharelatex and overleaf support git. You can pull/push directly to their sites or pair them to a GitHub repo iirc.

It's significantly easier to do collaborative editing of latex files with such a web service. But even a single person might want to use them, because maintaining latex dependencies can be bothersome.

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Re:ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf by carlosdp on Thursday July 20, 2017 @01:27PM (#14814538)
This, the dependencies are annoying to deal with. With ShareLatex, it "just works"
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Re:ShareLaTeX Joins Overleaf by Tijdreiziger on Thursday July 20, 2017 @04:10PM (#14815854)
A local MiKTeX installation handles this beautifully (MiKTeX is a LaTeX distribution which comes with a bare set of default packages, and then downloads packages from the internet transparently upon compilation if they're necessary).
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