Re: [Monotone-devel] Syncing databases without using a network?

[Christof Petig]

Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> Hello.
> I've been using monotone for several months now (and I'm quite happy
> with it), and there's one thing that I would like to suggest:
> 
> Since I keep several copies of a database in different places (laptop,
> desktop, USB stick, etc), I usually want to sync them -- but not
> necessarily over a network. I don't know of any tool that would
> sync two databases accessing the filesystem directly, and perhaps
> it would be a nice thing to have shipped with monotone?
> Something like:
> 
> monotone-sync databaseA.db databaseB.db

here you are (untested) ...

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#!/bin/sh
monotone -d $1 serve --bind localhost serve \* &
monotone -d $2 pull localhost \*
kill %monotone
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This has mostly been sufficient for monotone's users.

   Christof

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