[darcs-users] Single developer using multiple workstations

[Nimrod A. Abing]

On 5/12/07, Ketil Malde <ketil at ii.uib.no> wrote:
>
> Justin Bailey wrote:
> > I have a situation which is described perfectly in an email from 2005
> > (http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2005-March/006425.html).
>
> IIUC, the two sites cannot be reached directly from each other (so http
> or ssh access is out of the question.  Would it be possible to have a
> setup with two repos at each site, one local working repo, and one
> mirror of the remote.  Ideally, you'd have a procmail setup that applied
> patches automatically (examples on the darcs site, I think), and a
> mirror setup with 'darcs send' target addresses that are distributed to
> both sites.
>
> Given sites A and B and _w for working, _m for mirror, the patch flow
> would look like
>
> darcs pull A_m -> A_w
>   (work and record in A_w)
> darcs send A_w -> B_m, A_m
>
> darcs pull B_m -> B_w
>   (work and record in B_w)
> darcs send B_w -> A_m, B_m
>
> You'd need to be careful never to 'pull' from or 'push' into the
> mirrors, of course.  Would something like this work?

I have changed my workflow from the one I previously described in the
email cited by the OP. I now follow that same idea suggested by Ketil
above as it allows for better two-way synchronization between
machines.
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