Re: Working from different machines.

Tobiah <toby@tobiah.org> writes:

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').