Graham Leggett <[email protected]> writes:
>> Why not?
>
> Because a situation arises when both of you need to make writes. Which
> copy is the authoritative copy? Using svn alleviates this somewhat,
> but isn't ideal.
The authoritative copy belongs to whomever has the "write token".
> It is really easy to silently lose transactions, if a mixup occurs
> over who holds the master copy of the data file.
Indeed, which is why the "here be dragons!" warnings..
>>> The fact that gnucash can be asked to save the file in text/xml
>>> helps,
>>> because you can version this in something like svn. But versioning a
>>> database isn't easy at all.
>>
>> Why do you need versioning? Versioning is overkill for data sharing.
>
> It prevents the situation where I add a transaction, then you add a
> transaction, silently overwriting mine.
That shouldn't happen if only one person can access the data file.
> Not only is the data wrong, it is silently wrong without warning.
Well, it shouldn't be silent.. You should have been warned that the
data file was in use.
-derek
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