[darcs-users] Re: Making a darcs repo available through http

Mark Stosberg mark at summersault.com
Thu May 5 00:19:33 UTC 2005


On 2005-05-01, Jeroen Budts <jeroen at lightyear.be> wrote:
>
> One of the things that attracted me about darcs is the possibility to
> make a repo available through http. I'm using it for some smaller open
> source projects. So i have a 'base'-repo on my PC and one (or eventually
> more) 'working'-repo's. So when i want to work on the project i do a
> get/pull in the working-repo from the base, i edit files and push them
> back to the 'base'-repo, so that i don't edit directly in the 'base'.
> Then from time to time i upload my 'base'-repo to my webserver using ftp
> so that it is available (read-only ofcourse) to people following the
> project (through http).
>
> Now my question is: are there any tools/scripts available to kind of
> automate this? Or how do other people do this?

The issue you want to solve isn't darcs specific. You have a directory
on your hard drive and you want to do a one-way mirror of it to your web
server. So use a tool that specializes in that.

One I've used is 'Unison':
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

    Mark

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