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Oh, they all use version control.

It just looks like "conf_paper1.tex" "conf_paper3.tex" "conf_paper_friday.tex" "conf_paper_20240907.tex" "conf_paper_last_version.tex" "conf_paper_final.tex"

...

"conf_paper_final2.tex"

Oh, and the figures reference files on local dir structure.

And the actual, eventually published version, only exists in email back and forth with publisher for style files etc.



I once worked with a professor and some graduate students who insisted on using box as a code repository since it kept a log of changes to files under a folder. I tried to convince them to switch to git by making a set of tutorial videos explaining the basics but it was still not enough to convince them to switch.




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