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

[Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>]

Hi,
You can use git or mercurial (or other decentralized VC) to do that.
I use hg (mercurial).
To achieve that, you can do like that:
1) Initialize a repo in org-tree1
2) Clone org-tree1 to org-tree2 and org-tree3 (on the machine1)
2) Put these three org-tree on your usb-key
3) Put these three org-tree on the machine 2 and 3.

Thats all!

Now on any machine you can edit org-tree1, make changes, and just pull
changes from org-tree2 and 3. If you have your usb-key with you, pull
the change from the key, if not, you will do it later and synchronize
with the key on other machines.

For a better experience, use DVC with hg or git.


"Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:

> 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

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