On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 03:26:07PM +0200, Xianwen Chen wrote: > Hi folks, > > I like the versioning feature in Google Docs a lot. There I can review > past revisions of a document, which were generated automatically. In > LibreOffice Writer, such a feature can be improvised if I change the > user name in options each time I want to start a revision. That's not > convenient. Do you know if there is a text processor that has a > similar versioning feature like Google Docs? >
I used Git to version hundreds of megabytes of graduate school work. A professor once pulled me aside and asked me if a piece of work I submitted was legitimately written by me. He took my word for it, but I was dying for him to ask me to "prove it"--I used LaTex+TeXShop to write that particular assignment, would commit every 20 minutes or so over the course of two evenings, and the commits clearly tracked my Westlaw and LexisNexis usage logs. I continue to use Git to version tax documents, corporate papers, and tons of other stuff, including code, obviously. The nice thing about Git--as opposed to CVS--is that I can keep multiple "master" trees on different machines, so I always have full history in geographically separate locations, and it's trivial to keep them synchronized (though Git has a steep learning curve).
