Re: Multisiting in RCS???

[Aaron S. Hawley]

Quoting Bob Proulx <address@hidden>:

> Aaron S. Hawley wrote:
> > Quoting address@hidden:
> > > Hello,
> > > Is there Multisiting Capability available in RCS.
> > > If yes, can you please throw some light on the same.
> >
> > You could run any tool like rsync<http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/> to
> > mirror the RCS files, and use a crontab(1) file to manage how often
> > things should be synchronized between physically disparate systems.
> > The good news is that RCS can easily support a "Multisiting
> > Capability" with these tools, the bad news (or is it?) is that it's
> > not built-in.
>
> Creating a mirror of the repository is certainly possible with almost
> any reasonable version control system.  Then treating mirrors as
> read-only so that changes cannot be checked into them and subsequently
> overwritten by the mirror is easy enough.  But I do not think that is
> what the original poster was asking about.

That was my understanding of what "Multi-siting" meant in ClearCase 
vocabulary. It's entirely different from a source control system that 
supports a "central
repository".  That's my understanding of it, but I actually know nothing more
about ClearCase then what can be groked from the Web.

But indeed, the best way to multi-site RCS is to use one of the later
network-supported source control systems.
/a