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Sounds great in principle. In practice, it's the stuff of nightmares. This is because the web version commits every keystroke of your online contributors, makin
by gradstudent 2y ago
Sounds great in principle. In practice, it's the stuff of nightmares. This is because the web version commits every keystroke of your online contributors, making it very difficult for you to actually merge your local commits (they need to stop typing!).
- ramenbytes 2y agoYup. When I was using it, I don't think it was literally every keystroke but it was something pretty granular so that if your contributors were working on the document it was a nightmare to get anything pushed since it kept changing under your feet and causing conflicts. Finish a merge, and another one is waiting.
- ccppurcell 2y agoI was just about to comment something like: worked fine for me... But then I realised that the only time I did this I was 6+ timezones away from my collaborators.
- setopt 2y agoI actually never experienced this issue, that sounds annoying. But most papers I work on have like 2 coauthors, where one of them is usually in a different time zone, so that might be why :)
- milliams 2y agoIn my recent experience, it only seemed to make a commit when you did a `git pull`.