Re: sync repositories

[Paul Sander]

I thought the idea here was to propogate version histories between multiple
repositories, not to keep multiple sandboxes in synch.

The method you propose does the latter, and doesn't accomodate local changes
to both sandboxes.  It also provides no means to transfer other stuff such
as RCS states and tags.

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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 12:50:06PM -0700, Paul Sander wrote:
> Each site owns its own trunk.  Each site creates a branch that is used for
> importing from the other site(s); these branches map to the trunk(s) at the
> remote site(s).  No local commits are permitted on the import branches.
> Each site keeps a list of branches to export to the other site(s), and
> tracks the latest exported versions on each export branch.
> 
> To send an update from a remote site, the latest exported versions table and
> the export branch table are consulted, and all versions that have never
> before been exported are packaged up and sent (and the tables are updated
> as needed).  Tags are also sent out in an appropriate manner.
> 
> To receive an update, the received versions are checked into the import
> branch(es) as needed, and the tags are translated accordingly.

I just had an eeevil thought.  You're gonna cringe, I know, but
bear with me :-)

On system A, use a version of CVS which stores its metadata in
subdirectories called "CVS_A"; on System B, store the metadata in
"CVS_B".

Now, on System A, CVS won't recognize System B's metadata; it'll
revision-control CVS_B/Entries etc. like any other files.  And
vice versa.  Thus, one should just be able to keep ping-ponging a
single sandbox back and forth between the two systems (via email,
FTP, sneaker-net, whatever), and each system will use its own
metadata to stash the new revisions in the right place.

The systems in question had better have the same line-ending
conventions, of course...

Does anyone know whether CVS can still withstand having CVSADM
and friends defined to different values, or has "CVS" gotten
hard-coded anywhere?  (I know of one place; the ign_default
string in src/ignore.c.  That'd have to have "CVS" removed, and
CVSADM added dynamically to the default ignore list.)

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