swcarpentry / modern-scientific-authoring

How to write, publish, and review scientific papers in the early 21st Century
http://swcarpentry.github.io/modern-scientific-authoring/
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Text-based workflows and version control: Line breaking and word-diffing #32

Open petebachant opened 8 years ago

petebachant commented 8 years ago

Some discussion about breaking lines, which may not be obvious if the text editor soft-wraps them, is necessary. Also show using git diff --word-diff to highlight the words changed and not just the lines.