[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > <clears space> > rsync is kewl, but it will bite you! It is not ment to do this! > > You come home, tired, having worked late, and you rsync your home machine > onto > your work machine, blotting out your days work. Ooops.
Yep,rsync has some problems. It was my (as yet unconfirmed) understanding that Unison was better in this regard. > behold cvs: > you work on any file any time anywhere. you can checkin or update without > fear. > cvs will work perfectly with ps files and since binary files are stored > lock-stock-n-barrel tag your pdfs as binary (-kb). > > If you take the time to learn to use cvs it's a tool that you will embrace > for > the rest of time. It's safe (you can always revert) and it documents what > you've done (the log). You can rev-id your ps docs, even put the log history > into them. I am a software engineer so well aware of source code revision control systems :-). I am currently using subversion, bazaar-ng, Gnu Arch and visual source(un)safe. I have also used cvs in the past. I currently have one project which has a bunch of source code files and a 10 megabyte binary that changes almost as fast as the source code files. This project is kept in svn and bzr. >From my experience, source code revision control systems do not work well with binary files. The scale of this problem is also a little more than I would like to handle with something like cvs. I have over 800 files, which are currently consuming over 600 megabytes of disk space. In addition, cvs does not do renames nicely nor does it allow files to be easily moved from one directory to another. Its not uncommon for me to rename files so that their fine name more closely matches its content. I also put new files in a miscellaneous directory and move them later to a directory of other files with the same subject matter. > subversion suits the creators best, but it is not a better cvs, it's a > different cvs. It did not suit my paradigism. YMMV. cvs ensures the SAME > document in both places is called the same-name. subversion does not. Since subversion does renames and file moves much better that cvs I think its actually a better tool for this job than cvs. However itsI still don't think its the right tool. > I've heard that beagle does the search/database stuff. I've heard some people > love it and it is so cpu intensive it drags some people's machine to its > knees. It looks like Beagle might do the search/database stuff, and I'm willing to run the indexing task at 3am when I'm asleep. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea." -- Alexander Viro on linux-kernel mailing list -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
