On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:57:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Two things come to mind, neither of which I've used (or used enough) > to judge their viability. > > (1) rsync > which I'm told is a way of keeping two file systems in sync with one another > I currently make heavy use of rsync. I am trying to get away from it and move to something more automated :-)
> and if you'd like a revision control system, > > (2) monotone > which I've tried just enough to have trouble with it and still be > enthusiastic about its potential, even though it is still in active > development (current version is 0.21) and there may be compatibility > problems between versions. Its big plus is that it is totally > distributed. It can be used to maintain a database of variants of, > say, source files even though it has *no* central server. > It is specifically designed for the case that parts of a team of > developers may work in isolation, say, on detached laptops, using > their own copies of the repositor(y/ies), which are synchronised > when it happens to be convenient. > This might have some promise. I am personally a fan of CVS and Subversion for revision control, but Since I am trying to solve a different problem, this might work. Thanks for the pointer. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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