On Jan 22, 2014, at 9:20 AM, John McIntyre <joh98.mac@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > … > > So basically, what I'd like to do is this. I want to write code, > write blg posts, write essays for university, whatever. And I want to > use git to maintain revisions, but where do I store them? Do I make > the Mac my hub? I have a git client on there. Do I make the server > my 'hub'? If I make the server the 'hub', then won't rsync back-ups > from the Mac to the server wipe them out? > > … Git's degree of flexibility in what is considered "the server" is valuable here. I advise that you simply try a configuration, and see how it works. It's easy to change where origin points later. With that said, like you, I have a small ad-hoc setup of automated rsync backups between my various computers and servers, and I have found some characteristics useful: * I have rsync saving backups into dedicated backup folders on the remote machines. This eliminates ambiguity of what to back up (server A won't blow away server B's Documents folder, for example). * Using a publicly accessible server has been useful. I set up port forwarding to the machine, and set up a domain name pointing to the server. In general, when I have Internet access, I can access the server that contains my repositories. I always use the same domain name, even if I'm in the same room as the server. Hope that helps, Andrew -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html