Re: Tool for document management
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On 09/23/07 11:45, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> Tarballs don't sync across machines, they overwrite. Also it's a matter
>
>> I don't mean sync, I mean copy.
>
> I know what you meant. But you are flatly ignoring my requirement for
> syncing. I make an edit on Machine A and toss-a-tarball onto whatever
> machine(s) I decide. Then I make an edit on Machine B and do the same. Then
> I remembered I had edits from machine A, pull them down and, whoops,
> overwritten. Toss-a-tarball works fine if you're working on a single machine
> and want to just do a simplistic backup. It falls apart when you add more
> machines, maybe people, into the mix. That's why version controls showed up
> in the first place.
>
>> What's wrong with toss-a-tarball? Having yyyymmdd_hhmm in the file
>> name is a perfectly valid method of keeping versions separate.
>
> See above. Also you're presuming that the trees are going to be identical
> on the multiple machines where they might not be. So please, can you let it
> go? I have reasons why I don't want to go that route and don't feel like
> arguing about it.
Asking questions and making comments are *not* arguing.
> I stated my requirements, tarball doesn't even address most
> of them, out of the picture.
I think you drank too much coffee this morning.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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