[OS X TeX] Version controls for LaTeX book production

[Mark Eli Kalderon]

On Nov 12 2007, at 19:38, Josep M. Font wrote:

> All the several (good) recent explanations highlight that the change  
> controls work by analyzing the files line by line. What if I just  
> add or delete a few carriage returns, for instance to join two lines  
> that look too short in the editor ? My (naïve) impression is that  
> everything would be messed up, and that from that point on all the  
> lines might appear as changed.

No. At least with subversion, the change would be represented as  
expected---as the deletion of a few lines.