On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 07:26, Dymetman, Marc
<Marc.Dymetman_at_xrce.xerox.com> wrote:
> Hi, I am a newbie to SVN, and have the following question:
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>
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> Suppose that I am collaborating with several people on producing a book
> using LaTeX.
>
> I would like to use SVN not only for versioning the sources, but also I
> would like to have in the repository an up-to-date version of the .pdf (or
> .dvi, or .ps) compiled from these sources. The reason for that is that,
> although the pdf is recoverable from the sources, it is convenient for
> everybody to see the latest version without having to recompile the sources.
>
> I could compile the pdf in my working copy, and add it to the svn
> repository, but then I would be cluttering the repository with many versions
> of the pdf (for which SVN is probably not doing a good job at incremental
> diffs).
>
>
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> Is there a way to tell SVN that the latest pdf file should *replace* the
> previous one, that is, to force deletion of the previous revisions of that
> file?
>
> Of course I could save the pdf file somewhere else, not under version
> control, but perhaps there is a way to do that inside svn?
>
> (I guess my question would also make sense for binaries compiled from
> programs, not only for Latex docs).
If you can produce your compiled item from resources in the repository
(sources, stylesheets, makefiles, etc.), then there's no real need to
store the compiled items themselves - you can reproduce them anytime
you want in the future. Most people *don't* keep compiled binaries in
their repositories.
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Received on 2009-05-13 14:32:58 CEST