Question

I’m working on a LaTeX project (a beamer presentation) with a friend and we would like to be able to work on it simultaneously. We tried using Dropbox for sharing the files, but we found out that it’s very difficult to work on one file together. So my question is: is there a version control system that would allow to do this, so that the collaborators could apply their changes simultaneously (if the changes were disjoint)?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, many versioning systems will allow simultaneous editing with merging of changes. I’m a fan of git for small projects like this.

You might also consider a real-time collaborative editor like SubEthaEdit or even Google Docs. Then you can both write in the same file at the same time, and see each others’ changes as they are made–no merging necessary.