Re: Question about Source Control

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On 3/18/2014 5:51 PM, Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Frank Millman wrote:
>> These are the kind of stumbling blocks that prevented me from
>> succeeding in my previous attempt. I have a vague recollection that I
>> set it up on machine A, but then hit a problem because machines B and
>> C both accessed the same directory, but with different names
>
> For dealing with your practice of editing on one machine and
> running on another, you may be best off having just *one* local
> repository, residing on the shared file system. Whichever machine
> you're working on, you cd to the shared directory and use hg or
> git commands from there, so all the pathnames you're using are
> relative.

At least with hg, one should best test the code in the working directory 
*before* committing to the local repository. The one local repository 
could still be a close of a master repository somewhere else. One can 
push multiple commits at once, either as the end of a work session or 
when one has done enough to become paranoid about losing work.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Re: Question about Source Control "Frank Millman" <frank@chagford.com> - 2014-03-18 08:42 +0200
  Re: Question about Source Control Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2014-03-19 10:51 +1300
    Re: Question about Source Control Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-18 21:38 -0400
    Re: Question about Source Control Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-03-18 21:12 -0500
      Re: Question about Source Control albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-03-22 17:32 +0000
        Re: Question about Source Control Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-03-22 13:49 -0500
        Re: Question about Source Control Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-22 13:01 -0700
        Re: Question about Source Control Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-03-22 22:18 -0400
        Re: Question about Source Control Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-23 07:58 -0700
        Re: Question about Source Control Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 09:56 +1100
        Re: Question about Source Control Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-23 21:26 -0400
        Re: Question about Source Control Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-03-24 01:42 +0000
        Re: Question about Source Control Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-24 13:04 +1100
        Re: Question about Source Control Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-03-24 00:55 -0400
    Re: Question about Source Control Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-03-19 13:34 +1100

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