Re: Keeping dot files in sync

["William Scott" <wgscott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another option is unison

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Anonymous bin ich wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2008 4:51 AM, Thorsten Kampe <thorsten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> * Bart Schaefer (Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:45:50 -0800)
>> > On Feb 18, 12:05am, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>> > } I've got a central computer where I mainly work and do my .zshrc
>> > } changes. I need a program to propagate these changes to the other
>> > } computers (mainly virtual machines) to have the same zsh
>> configuration
>> > } there.
>> > }
>> > } Unfortunately my main workstation and the other PCs are not directly
>> > } connected (otherwise I'd simply rsync the changes).
>> >
>> > rsync -e ssh ...
>>
>> As I said: no rsync, no ssh on the Internet server, only http and ftp.
>>
>> > } Does anyone know of an application (Revision control or something
>> > } similar) that does this kind of task or assists in it?
>> >
>> > I use CVS for this; SVN or just about any revision control system
>> > with networking support ought to do fine.
>>
>> Can't be done when there is no CVS or SVN at the side where you want
>> to upload.
>>
>> I figured out that sitecopy[1] is probably the best choice:
>>
>> 1. I symlink all the files I want to synchronize into an empty
>> directory ("ln -s ~/.zshrc ~/.sitecopy/sync/.zshrc"), then
>>
>> 2. I sync this directory to the WebDAV server ("sitecopy -u mysite")
>>
>> 3. Sync from the WebDAV server on the remote side into
>> ~/.sitecopy/sync: "sitecopy -f mysite && sitecopy -s mysite"
>> (can't use ~ (the real target) because sitecopy would delete all the
>> other files in ~)
>>
>> 4. and then rsync all the files from ~/.sitecopy/sync to ~
>>
>> Done
>>
>>
>> Thorsten
>> [1] http://www.manyfish.co.uk/sitecopy/why.html
>>
>>
> I used to use SVN for this purpose, though I have my home directory
> mounted as NFS over a network. Recently I have switched to git. Here
> is what I think can be done.
> 1) Create a remote directory. In this case, it is created in my /tmp
> directory, or anywher. I just want to create a barebone repository.
> 2) Push everything to this repository.
> 3) upload this directory to your server
>
> This will in effect create a remote repository. You have to do it only
> once. Then add this http repository as remote. Now you can push and
> pull all you want.
>
> It probably needs webdav support. But I guess you have it already.
>
> Ref.:
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/howto/setup-git-server-over-http.txt
> --
> Regards,
>