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@ 2009-02-09  3:43 Alan E. Davis
  2009-02-09  6:39 ` Carsten Dominik
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From: Alan E. Davis @ 2009-02-09  3:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when
there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
    ---- Bertrand Russell
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see
nothing but sea.
    ----   Sir Francis Bacon

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2009-02-09  3:43 syncing org-mode files on three unconnected machines? Alan E. Davis
2009-02-09  6:39 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-09  7:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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2009-02-09 12:50     ` Alan E. Davis
2009-02-09 14:49       ` Manish
2009-02-09 15:54       ` Bernt Hansen
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