> On Nov 12, 2015, at 09:15, [email protected] wrote: > > I would like to emphasize that macula is not alone in these thoughts. > >> On Nov 12, 2015, at 8:44 AM, Maxwell, Adam R <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It’s shocking that when you save a file, all necessary information is >> updated? Your real objection here seems to stem from your notion that >> BibDesk is a text editor, and you think you know what bytes it’s changing. >> This is not really the case. > > Yes: I also have this notion/desire. For me, a main point of a bibtex > database is that it is a text file that can be read by humans, and the Bdsk > fields really go against this idea.
You’re not forced to use the Bdsk fields. If you make the choice to put local file locations (whether path or alias-based) in a shared bibtex database, there’s obviously a cost associated with that. Our model was that BibDesk owns the database, and you own the files and can move/rename them manually (unlike iTunes or iPhoto, which owns both). > >>> In any case, I need to devise a solution as I cannot let my GitHub-hosted >>> bibliography grow at this explosive rate even after changing a single byte. >> >> What does this mean? Your bibliography file size is not growing at an >> explosive rate due to these changes. Do you spend a lot of time looking at >> diffs of it? Is Git really inefficient at storage? > > I do spend a lot of time looking at diffs of my database. Often I have > collaborators who add or edit papers, and need to merge their changes. Okay. Editing existing entries would be confusing in diffs. Adding shouldn't be, since BibDesk always adds in the same location (head of the file, IIRC). > The autofilling of papers is fantastic, but the lack of portability, and the > noise in the diffs is really a huge wart for users like macula and me. I > believe that a simple option in the preferences for autofilling papers in a > relocatable directory structure would satisfy many users needs. Just use the Local-Url field, then, as Christiaan suggested. I think you lose autofile support and the file panes (and renaming/moving in Finder will break your links), but you won’t see the diffs. This basically gives you BibDesk as it was ~8 years ago. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
