[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re:emacs-wiki-discuss Digest, Vol 27, Issue 16

[Daniel M. German]

> Howdy all,
> 
> My next to last step in trusting my planner system is to keep my local
> files and my remote network files in sync. I thought rsync would be
> the way to go, but from what sacha has been teaching me, it sounds
> like that is just a better way to publish to the web. (That's my final
> step).
> 
> I would like to keep my local copy and remote copy in sync because I
> have to work from multiple computers and end up having to work off my
> own machines, so I would like to be able to just shell into my remote
> copy when I need to, but trust that I can sync (diff) things up later.
> 
> My remote is linux so I can shell into that from anything. but
> unfortunately (imho) my local copy is on XP+cygwin until I get gentoo
> running on my other machine. Is unison the best way to go? Or are
> there other things I don't know about?

I would recommend using CVS (or subversion). It will be able to
synchronize files regardless of where they were last modified, and
given the text nature of the files, "patch" them as needed. If you
tend to modify the same files you might have to do some manual
resolution of conflicts, but the cost is minimal given the advantages.

this way it does not matter where you modify your files, as long as
you synchronize frequently.

I use CVS for a large chunk of my home directory and it is great for
synchronizing remote machines.


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