[Klug-general] rsync woes, or, version control for web-developers?

[James Morris]

On 13 November 2011 18:44, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 13/11/11 17:27, James Morris wrote:
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>> Hi Karl, Mike,
>>   . And, if I do live edits on the server
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> If you do that the coding bogey man will come round and chop your fingers
> off one at a time without anaesthetic, and when he's finished with your
> fingers he will start on various other bits...

Have already done it and all without any bogeyman sightings! Did you
look at the link?


> rsync is your friend when it comes to transfer of missing or modified files,

Well, rsync was until it overwrite my code without any chance of recovery.

> and the hip, cool and up to date way to control distribution of complex
> applications is 'ant'.  However, make should be able to do it, and
> personally I find the syntax for ant a bit impenetrable.

I'm not a fan of Java. Not entirely sure why. Not overly keen on
writing/editing XML by hand either.

James.