Re: Poor performance in windows. Switching back to CVS

Jan Hendrik wrote:

> FTP synching e.g. Not everyone has his own live server standing
> in the own basement and not every hoster provides SVN to make
> the live copy just another WC. As long as _always_ done from the
> same WC there's no issue,

Of course there are issues. You have to do adds, copies, moves, etc.
with the svn tools. You can't just have changes made else appear back
in the working copy and expect them to be recognized.

> but the moment you do it from a
> different one you either have to upload *everything* (even if it is
> 100MB) or first to equalize timestamps with those on the server to
> get to the files different (or sync the dozen of files in as many
> folders one by one and pray you did not miss one in the half an
> hour that manual work takes). Maybe there are tools that handle
> this just the other way round, but WS-FTP did not nor does
> TotalCommander. Probably one could automize this with a post-
> commit hook and rsync, but this also takes a lot of control out of it.

So do an 'rsync -av' yourself.

> Anyway, I am not going to make this a big issue, guess most
> folks here are programmers with little to no interest in websites and
> therefore having not much use for FTP sync and its pecularities
> either.

If you can rsync, why would you even think about ftp? Even if you
started with copies from a different place, rsync can romp through and
adjust any differences, including the timestamps.

>> What about comparing timestamps and filesize - if either differ then the
>> file must be a candidate yeah? I know this is still a long way from
>> perfect, but it would cover most of the cases that people are concerned
>> about.
>
> Would not catch the corrected typo issue

What's a corrected typo issue?

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell@gmail.com
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