Re:Two dozen mathematicians wrote a 600 page book in 6 month...
by sampo on Thursday June 20, 2013 @04:29PM
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> what is the advantage of Git over something like Dropbox
Merging. People can work on the manuscript at the same time, and as long as they edited non-overlapping regions, git will merge both contributions silently and painlessly.
Editing a word processor document stored in a shared Dropbox folder, I guess you'd need to inspect both new versions and do the merge manually?
Merging. People can work on the manuscript at the same time, and as long as they edited non-overlapping regions, git will merge both contributions silently and painlessly.
Editing a word processor document stored in a shared Dropbox folder, I guess you'd need to inspect both new versions and do the merge manually?