Re: [Arx-users] Re: Arx on a simple webhost

[Kevin Smith]

Walter Landry wrote:
> then you can make an archive with the command
>
>   arx make-archive address@hidden ftp://foo.com/myname/archive
>
> You need to tell ArX that you are serving the archive via http
>
>   arx update-listing -a ftp://foo.com/myname/archive

That's step one. Step two is actually putting that remote archive to 
work. I'll lay out how I think you might structure it, and hopefully 
Walter can correct anything I get wrong.

Each development computer would have a local archive that is a mirror of 
that one remote archive. So on each machine, you would have an archive 
name that would be attached to two locations (local, and ftp). 
Periodically, you would use the mirror command to push or pull changes 
between the local and remote archives.

In your case, you probably only need an ftp route to the remote archive, 
since that can be used for both pushing and pulling.

If it were a public archive, and you wanted to view it as other people 
would see it, you could set up a third location, using http. That would 
be read-only.

One more tip: When working with any distributed SCM tool, you really 
want to create lots of branches and/or lots of working directories. 
Sadly, I haven't used distributed SCM enough to be able to say more than 
that.

Kevin