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From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: MORE: Using git via USB for personal org dir and other data files
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:00:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r61ie3h9.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vti7klg.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> (Bernt Hansen's message of "Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:32:43 -0500")

Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> writes:
> Hi Alan,
>
> The best way to test drive all this stuff is just make some throw away
> repos to play with.
>
> $ mkdir /tmp/junk
> $ cd /path/to/your/org/git/repo
> $ git clone --bare . /tmp/junk/org.git
> $ cd /tmp/junk
> $ git clone org.git home
> $ git clone org.git work
>
> Now you have 3 repos in /tmp/junk
>   work - pretends to be your repo at work
>   home - pretends to be your repo at home
>   org.git - your bare repo on the usb stick

I'll stay with monotone for this exact reason and purpos. It's great
with USB, FAT and so on. No mess since three years now and it has the
best of all user interfaces.


So here, again, my monotone advertising:

No thinking and reading and asking and than again reading... - just
using. That's what a SCMS is for. The docs (just one PDF) will get you
started after 10 minutes and you'll only have refer to the docs in very
rare cases in the future because of mtns UI.

You'll not even have to add your key file to ssh-agent by hand -
monotone does that for you once it knows about it. Don't add something -
just commit...

I only use git with servers on the net, where it plays great. Also, the
`git gui' is one of the best GUIs for RCSs around.

For the USB stick case, it's worth to mention, that monotone needs no
.mtn-ignore file, just to know, that *~ files have to be
ignored. Permissions are handled (even if the stick is FAT formated) as
well as empty directories. Simply the best designed RCS around IMHO. No
need to say, that monotone handles copys and renames (with history).

USB:

  $ cd org/
  $ mtn -d /path/to/desired/localdb db init
  $ touch file.c
  $ mtn add file.c
  $ mtn commit -m'message'

Now the USB:
  $ cp /path/to/desired/localdb /media/BLUE

That's all.

The first time we sync with /media/BLUE/database, we tell monotone, to
use this repo as the default. No fiddling with `remotes', `origin'...

  $ mtn sync --set-default /media/BLUE/localdb

Bang - you're done once for ever.

  # On the other computer:
  $ cp /media/BLUE/localdb /path/to/desired/localdb
  $ mtn -d /path/to/desired/localdb co org
  $ cd org
  # edit add and so on
  $ mtn commit -m'message'
  $ mtn sync --set-default /media/BLUE/localdb
 
Later on just call
  $ mtn sync


Databases are small (in my tests _much_ smaller than git or mercurial
repos), can even be accessed using SQL (it's a sqlite database) and
extend it's functionality through LUA (per workspace), trust is managed
per workspace...

One feature I like with monotone is the _MTN/log file. You may gather
commit messages while working, which makes it realy easy to document
your work in great detail and keeps you documenting them. Never forget
to document a change or the reason for it anymore. There's a little
elisp file I wrote make `add-change-log-entry' search for _MTN/log and
use it. I've bound `mtn-add-change-log-entry' to F8 (see
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/sr-monotone.el).

I even use monotone and git in conjunction a lot. Monotone for USB, git
for the servers (since I have to). While git has great features, those
are not what I need for my workflow.

git always throws warnings and errors here, when I try to `git clone
--bare' on FAT formated USB sticks (didn't try with the new 1.6.1.3
version, that's in Debian testing since a week).



Regards,

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-28 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-28  5:11 MORE: Using git via USB for personal org dir and other data files Alan E. Davis
2009-02-28 11:58 ` Ian Barton
2009-02-28 13:32 ` Bernt Hansen
2009-02-28 20:00   ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2009-02-28 20:01     ` Bernt Hansen
2009-02-28 22:07       ` Sebastian Rose
2009-03-01  1:10         ` Sebastian Rose
     [not found]           ` <7bef1f890902281810n1ccda333yada4e62082bd92c8@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]             ` <87zlg655pk.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ>
     [not found]               ` <7bef1f890902281903xa296051xa844059dd4e392a7@mail.gmail.com>
2009-03-01  3:04                 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-01  3:05                   ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-01  4:57                     ` Bernt Hansen
2009-03-01  4:10                   ` Bernt Hansen
2009-03-01 15:07                     ` Sebastian Rose
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-03-02 13:54 Alan
2009-03-02 15:28 ` Bernt Hansen

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