Excursus

CTAN has an interesting new package, the vc (version control) bundle. The vc bundle addresses some problems with earlier version control packages such as svn-multi (discussed here). First, earlier version control packages track version control information only for the LaTeX source. So, if you have a graphic, say, produced by an independent application, and you update it, this won’t be reflected in the version control information embedded in your LaTeX document. Second, many such packages rely on keyword substitution—an approach inapplicable to distributed version control systems like Git that lack keywords. The vc bundle addresses both these concerns and currently supports Subversion and Git. Its maintainer, Stephan Hennig, claims that other version control systems will be supported in the future. Will post back about this when I have road tested it.