Re: rsync vs. git-push/pull ? (+kudus)

From: Ramagudi Naziir <naziirr@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 10, 2008, 06:35 UTC
Message-ID: <dfb262380809092335q3d61488gf680c91ac23e69da@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080907073821.GA28289@linode.davidb.org>

Hi David,

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:38 AM, David Brown <git@davidb.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 09:11:47AM +0300, Ramagudi Naziir wrote:
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>> I really prefer rsync to git-push/pull since it is much more easier -
>> It's one command that syncs my whole working folder, including the git
>> repositories..
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> I used to do this quite a bit until after a few times I forgot to sync
> before changing things.  I solved this by creating a bare repo I could
> push/pull from, and pushing one of them to it, then fetching and
> merging in the other.

can you please elaborate on this technique ? I don't really get it. You mean you have an empty git repository somewhere, with which you are synchronizing all other repositories ?

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> After getting more familiar with git, I now use git with push/pull for
> pretty much anything I want synchronized.  It nicely keeps track of
> what I've done, whereas it is easier with rsync, or even unison, to
> forget to do the sync.

so you have myriad of git repositories ? and you push/pull all of them every time you move to another station ? I also have a lot of git repositories, even for stuff other than source code projects.

thank you naziir

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> David
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