It is good practice not to commit a data folder to version control if the data is available elsewhere and you do not want to track changes of the data. But do not forget to also add an entry for this folder to .gitignore because otherwise git iterates over all the files in the folder when checking for file changes, which may take a long time if there are many files.
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Tracking Changes in LaTeX
Tracking changes in Microsoft Word is easy – we just click the ‘Track Changes’ button. It requires a little more work in LaTeX but here is a quick guide to doing it as painlessly as possible!
First, we want our original document to be stored in a *.tex file in an Overleaf project (as shown below)
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