[NBLUG/talk] laptop sync

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 04:37:37PM -0700, augie wrote:
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5976
> 
> but i don't really have a need to keep a history of things, thanks for
> the suggestions though.

I've been doing CVS on part of my homedirectory (and webspace) for some time
now.  (4 or 5 years before that article was published) You don't *think*
you'd use a history, but when you've got one, you'd be surprised how useful
it is down the road to be able to go back.  Makes it easier to try thing out
without having old copies of things, etc.

And for a file that you just add to without removing, the CVS repository
copy will be only barely larger than the file itself.

And CVS can help you handle the case where you've made changes to both
versions (say, your laptop and workstation) without synchronizing first a
lot better than trying to figure out what happened with something like
rsync.  As a practical matter, it does require a server that can be reached
from anywhere via ssh, but I happen to have that available.

(In other words, i recommend at least considering using CVS for the task,
but I'm some sort of crazy CVS addict)
-- 
Eric Eisenhart
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The North Bay Linux Users Group
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