Re: [Nmh-workers] sync'ing an mh mailstore between two machines?

[Paul Fox]

tethys wrote:
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 > 
 > Peter Maydell writes:
 > 
 > >Just use rsync to copy the laptop's idea of the situation
 > >onto the desktop again? (And vice-versa in the morning.)
 > 
 > Bleurgh! It's a difficult problem to solve. Probably the best
 > way is to use a DVCS for your mail store. They're generally
 > explicitly designed for offline operation and resyncing of
 > the repository when you get connectivity again.
 > 
 > At this point, I couldn't really recommend anything other
 > than git, because it's the only one I'm aware of that tracks

well, this thread is certainly becoming more interesting than i
expected it to be.  certainly using git never would have occurred
to me.

there's a very nice file tree syncing tool called "unison" that might
be useful as well -- i hadn't thought of it until peter mentioned rsync.
unfortunately it's no longer under active development, but in my
(limited) experience it works very well:
    http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

i'll have to think about whether it would be appropriate in this case.

paul
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