Re: Working from different machines.

> Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> writes:
>
>> In other words, I want to work from different machines, and always
>> sit down to the environment exactly as I last left it.
>
> You have several options, but it depends on untold expectations you
> have beyond "exactly as I last left it."  So the following is only
> to show directions and possibilities without going into details.
>
> For example, do you save all changes you made in your editor buffers
> before you leave the 'desktop'?  If the answer is "no", then that is
> not a problem Git-the-tool is interested in solving, and the only
> solution I could think of is to use mechanism to share the session
> between 'desktop' and 'home', using things like remote-desktop or
> screen session.
>
> If the answer is "yes", the next question is if you commit all the
> changes you made before you leave the 'desktop'.  If the answer is
> "no", again, that is not a problem Git-the-tool is interested in
> solving, and the only solution I could think of (in addition to the
> "share the session" above) is to use networked filesystem shared
> between 'desktop' and 'home'.
>
> If the answer is "yes", then you are in the problem space that
> Git-the-tool is interested in solving.  Assuming that you have
> network connection into 'desktop' from 'home', the solution would
> involve making it the first thing to do when get home to run "git
> fetch" on 'home' to get the latest state from the 'desktop', and run
> "git push" on 'home' to push out the latest state to the 'desktop'
> before you leave 'home'.  If your 'server' is for your sole use, and
> if 'home' has network connection into 'server', then you could
> instead rendezvous at 'server' by running "git push server" on
> 'desktop' (or 'home') to 'server' as the last thing before you leave
> 'desktop' (or 'home'), and running "git fetch server" on 'home' (or
> 'desktop') as the first thing before you start working on 'home' (or
> 'desktop').
>