[techtalk] File sharing over the internet

[James]

oops, to be clearer:

What I meant by "local" is, on our workstations.  I want all changes on the
server with no files on the client.

- k

----- Original Message -----
From: "kath" <kath at kathweb.net>
To: <jenn at simegen.com>; <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [techtalk] File sharing over the internet


> I was thinking CVS... but not keeping changes local is important (so noone
> is holding out on something important on accident).
>
> Would CVS be able to do this?  I always thought CVS was more like a
> different kind of FTP (How I've come to understand it is that you have
> people that can update the source and others that can just view and
download
> it.  Am I missing something?)
>
> - k
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <jenn at simegen.com>
> To: "kath" <kath at kathweb.net>
> Cc: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 8:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [techtalk] File sharing over the internet
>
>
> > kath wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Is there anyway for all of us to sync files easily?  The closest thing
I
> > > can describe how I'd like to do this is MS Frontpage extensions (But
of
> > > course, not that).  I'd prefer everything to be done in real time
(maybe
> > > thats not the right term... I mean that all of us are using the
freshest
> > > copy from the server with nothing local except for images waiting to
go
> > > up to the server).
> >
> > This looks like the sort of problem that CVS (concurrent versioning
> > system) was designed to solve.
> >
> > If you're familiar with CVS, that's probably enough answer. If not,
> > please say something & I (or someone else) can give you a quickie
> > CVS tutorial - and/or tell you the range of CVS-like options.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jenn V.
> > --
> >      "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture
> >              you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.
> >
> > jenn at simegen.com     Jenn Vesperman     http://www.simegen.com/~jenn/
> >
>
>
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