-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/23/07 11:45, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Tarballs don't sync across machines, they overwrite. Also it's a matter > >> I don't mean sync, I mean copy. > > I know what you meant. But you are flatly ignoring my requirement for > syncing. I make an edit on Machine A and toss-a-tarball onto whatever > machine(s) I decide. Then I make an edit on Machine B and do the same. Then > I remembered I had edits from machine A, pull them down and, whoops, > overwritten. Toss-a-tarball works fine if you're working on a single machine > and want to just do a simplistic backup. It falls apart when you add more > machines, maybe people, into the mix. That's why version controls showed up > in the first place. > >> What's wrong with toss-a-tarball? Having yyyymmdd_hhmm in the file >> name is a perfectly valid method of keeping versions separate. > > See above. Also you're presuming that the trees are going to be identical > on the multiple machines where they might not be. So please, can you let it > go? I have reasons why I don't want to go that route and don't feel like > arguing about it.
Asking questions and making comments are *not* arguing. > I stated my requirements, tarball doesn't even address most > of them, out of the picture. I think you drank too much coffee this morning. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG9p8VS9HxQb37XmcRAgQyAKCIsdR4f7SSnzRRKBN59OUPpjFyVwCfQnCX EgmeEL9upj7w6dGak/2XVO0= =nVWO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
