[darcs-users] Single developer using multiple workstations

[Eric S Fraga]

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:54:29PM +0800, Nimrod A. Abing wrote:
> Looks like a very interesting solution, see here:
> 
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

I think unison has been discussed before. It's a fantastic tool and I
use it to keep three computers pretty much in sync. 

However, there are potential problems with having a darcs repository
under unison control as well, depending on the versions of darcs on
the different computers. If you can ensure that these computers will
all have the exact same version of darcs, then things might go
fine. However, if they might have different versions, problems can
arise with inconsistencies (not sure why). 

I was initially using unison to keep my working repository in sync
between computers but eventually ran into problems. I now keep darcs
repositories outside unison control. YMMV...

In answer to the original poster's question, I make significant use of
the 'darcs send --context ...' and 'darcs apply ...' commands for
working with one computer that is only intermittently connected to the
'net.  (thanks again to those on this list that helped me in this
regard a while back!)

-- 
 Eric S Fraga, Dept Chemical Engineering, UCL, e.fraga at ucl.ac.uk
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