Re: syncing org-mode files on three unconnected machines?

From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: syncing org-mode files on three unconnected machines?
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:39:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0D6D2E2C-126E-4086-B944-2462AF5F3E13@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890902081943n2417dde4uc923053fdf279a47@mail.gmail.com>

While I am using git myself, you may want to look into

    http://getdropbox.com/

I discovered this only recently, and keeping your org files
in the drop box may be a perfect solution.

- Carsten

On Feb 9, 2009, at 4:43 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I am studying and using git in several ways at work and at home, and  
> hope to dive further into the agenda possibilities.  I have been  
> using org-mode at work, on two machines, as well as at home, on my  
> preferred main machine.  I also would like to run emacs and org-mode  
> sometimes on a laptop.  I am not currently able to network or  
> internetwork between them, due to various firewall and wireless  
> router issues that are beyond my level.
>
> My question is basically how to keep the files consistent among the  
> various machines.  I have thought of at least two ways, but don't  
> understand whether either of them will work:
>
> 1.  I am now carrying around a USB flash drive with three ~/org  
> trees from three machines.  I have been trying to maintain important  
> files by hand: cutting and pasting headlines and their subtrees,  
> then sorting the entire target file.  Is there a canonical method  
> for merging two files (basically the same file on two different  
> machines, edited at different times, with some overlaps)?
>
> 2.  I am thinking git.  I'm uncertain about git at the best, so I  
> don't know how to implement this.  Is this reasonable?  A git  
> archive is kept on a flash drive.  It is updated from the drive of  
> the current machine.  ~/org on the current machine is also updated   
> from the git archive on the flash drive.
>
> I am currently struggling to get git working on all my ~/org trees.   
> Also, I have set some files outside that tree as remember targets or  
> with links to be access from git files.  Somehow, those files will  
> have to be hardlinked on both or all three machines, meaning the  
> machines will have to mirror each other.
>
> Somehow, any solution to this problem will need to be robust when I  
> forget my flash drive.
>
> Am I dreaming?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alan
>
>
> -- 
> Alan Davis
>
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