Re: [Monotone-devel] Some Newbie Questions

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 12:04:12AM +0100, address@hidden wrote:
> I goofed in sending this email earlier - somehow it came through on the 
> list with only the first two of the following paragraphs (or at least I 
> hope it was my mistake and not that the mail-list software is curtailing 
> it because it is too long).

Still only got two paragraphs.  The mailing list regularly carries
longer messages, though; perhaps something wrong with your client
setup?

> I'm not only new to Monotone but also new to version control systems.  But 
> after reading some reviews of various VCS, Monotone stood out to me as 
> being the most interesting.  In fact, it prompted me to think of other 
> uses for it besides version control, and I hope you wouldn't mind 
> answering some questions about these things.
> 
> I would like to use Monotone to replicate data to a series of distant 
> offices which have slow internet connections.  The data they need is 
> read-only.  I know that I could use FTP or something like Coda/Intermezzo 
> to bring their data to them.  However, what I would prefer is to just have 
> a single depot that I update, and then have periodic cron jobs running in 
> the local offices to bring the data to them.  I think that Monotone might 
> turn out to better than these alternatives.

If you're the only one touching the data, and you don't want version
control, then 'rsync' is probably a better fit than monotone.  Or
possibly 'unison'.  Monotone would probably work too, of course, but
the other tools are more directed at what you seem to want, and more
mature.

-- Nathaniel

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