On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 16:26 -0700, Avi Bryant wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Lukas Renggli <renggli at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am would like to see some documentation on how to migrate from the
> > old Monticello. Also I am eagerly awaiting the network repositories.
> 
> Here's a strategy that I think would work to allow networked
> collaboration with MC2 in its current state.  Colin, let me know if
> I'm making any faulty assumptions here or misremembering how MC2
> works.
> 
> 1. For your project, create a separate file repository for each
> developer.  So, Lukas, if you, Colin and I were all collaborating on
> something, we would have lr.mcr, avi.mcr, and cwp.mcr.
> 2. Set up a script which rsyncs these three files to a shared
> location.  Each developer should have this script set up to *upload*
> their own mcr and to *download* everyone else's.
> 3. Commit to your own repository (I would commit to avi.mcr), and then
> run the script.  Or, have a cron job which runs it every few minutes.
> 
> Since the project has all three repos added, everyone's versions
> should show up together in the UI.  Since each developer is only
> modifying his own file, there shouldn't be any conflicts at the file
> level.  Since the .mcr files are always only appended to, rsync should
> be able to update them quite efficiently (right?).  And although there
> would be some duplication (each developer's repo would contain its own
> copy of most of the method versions), it would be O(developers) not
> O(versions) as MC1 is.
> 
> Thoughts?

We do a similar setup with MC1. I did it because there was no easy
ssl support for http repositores.

I have a central server where everyone syncs to. There is a virtual
user named after the project (in this case whooka). For this virtual
user each developers ssh key is installed. To sync we use unison as
it does a two-way-sync.  Every developer syncs as whooka at central-hub.
This setup is easy to use (has a gui unison-gtk even available on
windows) and is doable from everywhere as the central hub is reachable
from the internet.

Norbert