Re: Problems with uncommitted working directories, from home and work.

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, December 3, 2003 at 02:12:59 (+1100), Craig O'Shannessy wrote: ]
> Subject: Problems with uncommitted working directories, from home and work.
>
> I never had this problem before, I've been using ssh and vi for years,
> but now I'm addicted to an IDE (idea), so I've gotta find a better
> solution.

Is "idea" an X11 application?  If so then how about X11 forwarding
through SSH?  I.e. run it on your work machine just as you did with 'vi'.

The next best solution is to religiously use rsync to update your home
machine's working directories and then always rsync your @home edits
back to your work machine for any CVS operations which you'll run by
logging into your work machine just as you did with 'vi'.

>  I'm currently considering sshfs, but the performance won't be
> good.

Use rsync over ssh!  :-)

> I assume many of you have this same problem, how do you deal with it?

I for one have _never_ had this problem.  I always login to the machine
where I'm doing my development.  I run my development environment
(normally Emacs) from that machine and only use the machine in front of
me as a terminal.  Over high-speed connections I use Emacs as an X11
client and over low-speed or high-latency connections I use Emacs in the
good old-fashioned terminal mode.

The third best solution would be to get a laptop and always use it --
i.e. carry your working directories and IDE with you wherever you go to
work on them.

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