[darcs-users] Re: Newbie questions

David Roundy droundy at abridgegame.org
Sun Feb 13 14:02:25 UTC 2005


On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 09:16:51AM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:
> On 2005-02-13, Andrew Wagner <awagner at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> > 2. In the most common configuration, darcs does not have a binary on 
> > the server.  Clients merely need to have read/write access to the files 
> > over some protocol, i.e. http, sftp, etc...
> 
> Not quite true.  Reading this is true.  Writing requires a binary on the
> server and a way to run it, so pretty much ssh only for now.
> Alternatively, full filesystem access will work.
> 
> You could also hack something up with rsync or other mirror to the server
> a locally accessible repository, but getting locking to work correctly in
> that case isn't totally trivial.

There's also darcshive.  I'm not sure how well it works, or even if AJ is
still actively working on it, but this is the sort of problem it's intended
to solve.
-- 
David Roundy
http://www.darcs.net




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