README

Name: The vc bundle
Version: v0.6
Authors: Roland Hieber <rohieb+ctan@rohieb.name>,
  Stephan Hennig <stephanhennig@arcor.de>
Last modified: 2018-06-11
License: CC0 1.0 (Public Domain Dedication), see ./LICENSE,
  or <URL:http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>
Maintenance Status: actively maintained as of 2020-01-23


The vc bundle
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This is a script based approach to version control for TeX
documents.  It works more reliably than keyword substitution
based approaches, since it tracks all files in a working
copy, not only .tex files.

The vc bundle works with LaTeX and plain TeX.  Currently,
Bazaar, Git, Mercurial and Subversion are supported.


What's special about the vc bundle?
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* Common version control packages for LaTeX use keyword
  substitution to access revision information.  That
  approach doesn't work reliably in the presence of
  non-.tex files, e.g., graphics or graphic sources that
  are processed by an external tool.
* The author is unaware of any alternative version control
  packages for plain TeX.
* The author is unaware of any alternative LaTeX version
  control packages that support Bazaar or Git.


Getting the software
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The latest version of the vc bundle can be found at
CTAN:support/vc.

<URL:http://www.ctan.org/get/support/vc.zip>

The source repository can be found on GitHub.

<URL:https://github.com/rohieb/ctan-support-vc>


Installation and Usage
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Please see the manual in vc-manual.pdf.

Happy TeXing!
Stephan Hennig