[plug] Desktop linux question...

Senectus - senectuskal at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 12 22:32:03 WST 2004


hmm ok thanks.. will check it out..

Senectus


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>From: James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au

>In message <BAY14-DAV44HIv6Eybq0000a000 at hotmail.com>
>on Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:54:12PM +0800, senectus wrote:
> > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/11/237250&mode=flat
>
>(An article about putting your home directory into CVS.)
>
> > Would running diff distro's make that hard??
>
>Mixing distos should have no impact on CVS whatsoever. *However*, I
>would suggest that it's not a good idea unless you know who need the
>functionality of CVS. (I haven't read the follow-up on Slashdot,
>though.) I would suggest that you use Unison for this purpose. A short
>list of my own reasoning:
>
>  - CVS requires a 'repository'. The repository contains all revisions of
>    your home directory, meaning you can 'rewind' to a past version. This
>    might sound good, but CVS is not really capable of handling deletions
>    and moves nicely (not to mention some quirks with binary files), so
>    it may be considered unsuitable for home directories. Also, all
>    distribution of changes needs to happen via the repository, which
>    means that moving files from A to B is a three-step process: update
>    A, commit A, update B. Also, your storage requirements increase from
>    "number of computers * size of home dir" to "number of computers *
>    size of home dir + accumulated size of all files that have ever
>    existed in your home directory".
>  - Unison is specifically designed to do what I assume it is that you
>    want to do.
>
>For the record, I use Unison for synchronising my general directories
>and CVS for my "dot files".
>
>
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