I work in a research group were at any moment in time we have several authors writing several different documents collaboratively. We have an SVN server that orchestrates it all and things run smoothly. The issue is that when we have several documents on the same topic we end up having several bib files very similar to each other. Up until recently, replicate a bib file from a previous document was a regular task whenever a new document was created.
This has been addressed by setting up single bib file repository; whenever a new document is created the author checks out the relevant bib database to a specific directory and references it. This scheme eliminates replication but creates a new problem: the reference to the bib file will be different in each author system and thus the tex file wont compile.
The simplest way to solve this would be to reference the bib file directly at the SVN repository, using its URL, e.g.:
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\bibliography{http://my-server/svn/bibliography/database}Otherwise, any other suggestions how multiple authors can share bibliography databases across multiple documents?
Thank you and regards.