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

[John Sullivan]

"Daniel M. German" <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.
>

I used unison for my Planner and for my mail for quite a while. It's very
convenient. But, if you think that you might ever edit files in more than one
place without synching first, you probably are best off with a version control
system. I use darcs.


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