USB Pen Drive User

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:33:26AM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> I do quite a few file exchanges whilst on the train. SVN would be no 
> help there. I also move quite a few binary files across several 
> platforms, something that versioning systems don't do well. I think I'm 
> still recovering from how SCCS did binary version management (hint: it 
> used uuencode and diff.)

Subversion does xdelta diffs and handles binary files very very well.
Just because other version control systems don't doesn't mean subversion
can't.

> I'm sure I would be, but no less than you'd be if your server or 
> connection went south for the day. What with my lovely ISP being barely 
> able to keep a DSL connection open for more than half an hour, I 
> couldn't maintain a server at home. Not sure I could conscience the 
> energy usage, either.

Some kind of frequent backup would be an idea.  perhaps you could
include that in your little script so a backup is made wherever you last
used the usb key.

Lennart Sorensen
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