Re: working with svn copy on two machines

[oneman <lists@onemanifest.net>]

On 2-nov-2008, at 11:24, John Allen wrote:

> H.S. wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > I am trying to see if there is a way such that I can use both my lab
> > machine and home machine copies of the source code as working copies.
> > The way I understand is that when I am in the middle of some  
> > change, I
> > will have to commit back from home or lab in that unfinished state,
> > update my copy at home or lab and then continue working. Is this  
> > what is
> > commonly done in such situations?
> Yes. Do not use rsync. Only use svn, and commit after working, and  
> update on the other machine to get the changes.

Or, if you don't like having a gazillion intermediate commits in your  
trunk, you could also create a branch an work on that. You'd commit  
the intermediate changes in the branch and merge it in trunk when  
you've completed a task, keeping your trunk's history clean.

Peter