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Re: [Monotone-devel] Using monotone via USB flash drive
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Stephen Leake |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Using monotone via USB flash drive |
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Sat, 14 Apr 2007 13:51:33 -0400 |
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Timothy Brownawell <address@hidden> writes:
> On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 09:46 -0400, Stephen Leake wrote:
>> To sync the central database with a non-networked target system:
>>
>> 1) Install the USB drive in a developer machine, and sync the
>> developer's local database with it.
>>
>> 2) Install the USB drive in the target machine, and sync the local
>> database with it.
>>
>> 3) Install the USB drive in a developer machine, and sync the
>> developer's local database with it.
>>
>> 4) Sync the developer's local database with the central database.
>>
>> I'm sure I've left out some details; I have not actually used monotone
>> seriously yet.
>>
>> But I'd like to know if the basic idea is sound, or if I need to find
>> another solution to the problem.
>
> That should work, yes. The central database will have a server running
> on it so it can be accessed concurrently, and the USB drive can be
> synced with the "file://" sync mechanism we have now.
Ok, thanks.
> ...If the users are never allowed to make changes themselves but always
> have to ask the developers to make the changes for them (does "changed
> at the user's request" happen on the target machine, or the developer's
> machine?),
On the target machine. Sometimes we may let the users edit those
files; it's more a matter of teaching them where the files are, than a
matter of permission :).
> then steps 3 and 4 won't be needed. (In that case, you'd also want
> the target machine to pull from, rather than sync with, the database
> on the USB drive.)
Right.
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-- Stephe