Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Using arch for offline development

[Karel Gardas]

On Thu, 13 May 2004, Matthieu Moy wrote:

> Charles Duffy <address@hidden> writes:
>
> >> Is such a mirrored archive a proper archive in a sense that if the
> >> laptop gets stolen/broken/etc I can easily turn the mirror into my
> >> main repository?
> >
> > Yes; there's only a single file (=mirror) that needs to be deleted to
> > change the mirror into a proper archive.
>
> ... Therefore, you could have a script to sync the mirrors, delete the
> =mirror file  on one machine  and create it  on the other.  That would
> allow you to swap mirror and archive easily.
>
> Call that  script before going  offline, and the oposite  script after
> comming back online.

Hmm, isn't it more simple to just use local archive and when (test script)
machine is online during commit do push-mirror and also call push-mirror
when machine changes state from offline to online?

Karel
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