Hooray wrote in Wed Nov 21, 2012 7:54 pm:Sorry, I'm not sure if you are asking for help here or if you are offering help?
How about (C) - All of the above!
- I want to help. I am especially interested in making sure that the "Windows" side of things is well represented here.
- I also need help, as I have never worked in a LaTeX/Git based environment before
If you don't understand the concept of merge requests via git, they are well explained actually (wiki/gitorious).
I understand the
concept of merge requests with a CVS system, but I have had no real "stick time" flying one. Ergo, I will probably need an instructor pilot, at least at the beginning.
In fact, there are great Windows GUIs available for git, including some cross-platform stuff.
Do tell! May I have links to this stuff please?
I still have the lumps on my head from my previous searches on just that issue - all I found were tools that were primarily command-line tools that required the co-installation of a mini-'nix within Windows. And though I am not specifically excluding that as an option, I feel that there are more productive ways for me to spend my time. For example, arguing with you and posting multiple chapter "essays". (
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Seriously, I was, and am, more interested in verifying that I can actually handle the LaTeX files in Windows, and return usable files to Stuart, before I jump through the rest of the hoops, since if I cannot properly handle LaTeX using the Windows tools I have, then the rest of this is moot.
By the way, this is why I am so interested in getting at least
SOMETHING in native LaTeX format for me to work with. I want to make some kind of change to it, even if it's just a "bogus" change for testing purposes, so that I can verify my LaTeX editor setup is valid. (Psst! Stuart!! Hint! Hint!)
It's kinda moot [make that read, "obnoxious"?] to suggest I didn't read or understand your previous posting, because I actually agreed with your earlier points completely, we just didn't agree on the channel to be used here.
Ahhh!
A thousand apologies if I seemed a bit gruff, (or obnoxious), there. Not intended, but it really DID look like you had completely "bleeped" over my other posting about windows inclusion. I also hope that all of you can see - behind my foot-stomping - that the reason behind this is because I am truly passionate about providing help in this way. And the apparent roadblocks are frustrating to the extreme.
But for now, there's a "standard" channel, i.e. gitorious -> merge requests -> heads-up notice via issue tracker/mailing list/forum.
Thanks!
If I can find some way of managing Git without having to constantly flip back-and-forth between one OS and the other, that would be great!
Then again, there's always a VM under Win-7 with 'nix in it.
(and why do I see the simple solutions so late in the game? :bonk head against brick wall:
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That would solve a great many issues. I could "git" what I need, use the windows tools I prefer, and then "git"-it right back to you. A VM is easily enough done and there's no real risk of unrecoverable damage to my base system, so I should get cracking and give this idea a try.
Any particular flavor you folks recommend? Right now I'm messing with Ubuntu and Mint.
What say ye?
Jim (JR)
p.s. I'd still like to see the links to the native Windows Git tools - if for no other reason that it might be possible to write a "how-to" on the subject of Windows, LaTeX and Git.