Re: [Gnu-arch-users] experience of using Arch under Windows

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 07:16:15PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 10:07:59AM +0100, Robin Green wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 27, 2004 at 09:28:53AM +0300, Dmitry Mishchenko wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > I running Arch under Linux, accessing remote archive over SFTP.
> > > Right now my collegs which is using Windows need to work with the same 
> > > archive. 
> > > 
> > > Is it possible with current version of tla? Which approach will you 
> > > advise to 
> > > use:  MSFU, Cygwin or  Native Win32  to work with remote archives over 
> > > sftp?
> > 
> > There is another alternative: give each person a working directory on a 
> > Linux
> > machine, give them a ssh account to run tla and share the working directory 
> > using
> > Samba, so they can connect to it just as a network share (drive Z: or 
> > something).
> 
> This is a very good point. In fact, I believe that's what the admins
> set up at a company I used to work at.
> 
> I've been pondering for a week or so to try to decide what to do in
> just this regard, kind of dreading having to learn cvs-arch gateway
> setup/ commands etc (my coworker is a windows-must-click-to-do-all
> addict unfortunately, although it does healp me build my knowledge,
> it can get a bit demanding sometimes...).
> 
> This is a great solution! Thanks for reminding me,

How would the windows developer easily keep an offline version?

I guess just rsync from within cygwin or something would work...

Any other ideas to do this?

tia
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