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Re:Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style f... by carlob on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:06AM (#9765087)
Put on github instead of passing it down? Might not work for non-comp-sci students that use LaTeX, but are not familiar with git.
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Re:Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style f... by Steuard on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:13PM (#9765622)
True. I started using Subversion and then Mercurial for writing scientific papers during grad school (a distributed VCS was handy when editing on multiple machines), but it never seemed worth the effort to teach my collaborators how to use them from scratch.
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Re:Clean Thesis – A clean, simple, and elegant LaTeX style f... by carlob on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @05:47PM (#9768051)
There are lot of people who use Dropbox for its version control features, albeit limited they might be. It might not scale well with many users and branching, but it's probably good enough for two researchers editing the same paper on two different machines in the same office.

There might be a market for a good automated multi user version control (no programming required)…

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