[OS X TeX] How use git with TeXShop projects?

[Robert Love]

I think you can discount RCS.   Git & Mecurial are the distributed source control tools and Subversion is the older one.

There is a LaTeX package vc to help with marking the version number in the document.   I need to figure out how modify my latexmk to use it.

> On Oct 7, 2020, at 4:54 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’d like direct advice and pointers to documentation on using a revision control system with both a local repository and a repository in the cloud for projects done in TeXShop.
> 
> Considerations:
> 
> 	- Except for having downloaded many archives from github, I’ve never used a revision control system before
> 	
> 	- I’m agnostic with respect to the particular revison control system. I suppose Subversion and GIT are the chief contenders today.  Or RCS?
> 
> 	- I’m aware of http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-3/scharrer/scharrer.pdf <http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-3/scharrer/scharrer.pdf>, but that’s a bit old (and Windows oriented)
> 
> 	- Are there any hooks in TeXShop for facilitating use of a revision control system directly within it?
> 
> Although I’m engaged in a single-author project, my understanding is that using a revision control system would be a lot safer than my current, “manual” system of (i) having the Mac utility app Forever Save 2 automatically save each TeX file each time it’s saved within TeXShop; (ii) daily backing up the current files in the project into a .tar via a little shell script; and (ii) of course the usual local backup to TimeMachine and remote backup to a cloud-based system such as AWS S3/Glacier.
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