Re: Advice for "pseudo public" repository on a USB key for a single contributer project

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El 24/01/2010, a las 03:17, Tay Ray Chuan escribió:

Hi,

2010/1/24 Maxime Lévesque <maxime.levesque@xxxxxxxxx>:
 Since there are no servers involved, I have used pull command
 to move my 'HEAD' around :

 after working on machine1 I do :

   commit to machine1Repo
   machine1Repo  --pull--> USBKeyRepo

I think you mean "push", since what you want is to make the changes in
machine1Repo available in USBKeyRepo.

when I switch on machine2 I start by bringing it up to date from the key :


   machine2Repo  <--pull-- USBKeyRepo

  and when I'm finished  :

  commit to machine2Repo
  machine1Repo  --pull--> USBKeyRepo

I think you mean "push" here and s/machine1/machine2/ too, so that would read

 machine2Repo --push--> USBKeyRepo

When you make changes on machine2 and go back to machine1, you need to
fetch/pull in your changes, just like you do for machine2Repo:

 machine1Repo  <--pull-- USBKeyRepo

  From what I have read my USBKey repo is like a public repo,
 so I have tried using a bare repo, because since I never work
 directly on the usb key, the souces on this repo are just
 adding unnecessary complexity. So far I had no success,
 because the pull command doesn't recognize my bare repo,
 it seems that bare repos must me accessed via a daemon process.

For this kind of workflow I generally use pull in both directions. Push works only if it results in fast-forward merges in both directions, and if you are a little forgetful like me it's fairly easy to sooner or later forget to update one of the repos and end up making commits in both of them, leading to a situation in which at least one of the merges would have to be a non-fast-forward.

If you always pull, you are at least working in a non-bare repo at that point and you can choose to either (non-fast-forward) merge or rebase.

Unless you are really disciplined about synchronizing the repos before you ever start any work, then I think "pull" in both directions is the way to go.

Cheers,
Wincent

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