Re: [h-e-w] Syncing Emacs org files

[Francis Wright]

A Windows-only solution might be to use Windows Live Mesh. It synchronizes
directories rather than files. I use it to synchronize a few directories between
my desktop at work and my laptop at home. If you also synchronize with SkyDrive
then it is not necessary for both/all computers to be running at the same time
and you get 5GB of free cloud backup (for Mesh; 25GB in total for one SkyDrive
account). However, Mesh can hang (no idea why), so don't rely on it for anything
mission-critical!

Francis

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden On
> Behalf Of Sarir Khamsi
> Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:08 PM
> To: ntemacs
> Subject: [h-e-w] Syncing Emacs org files
> 
> I've recently started down the spiritually enlightening path that is org mode
and
> noticed that I now have a bunch of org files on my laptop
> (WinXP) and my desktop (Windows 7). There now seems to be a problem of
> keeping these files synced up. Ediff is an option but that means knowing what
> files have changed, and they are in a variety of dirs in my "home"
> dir. rsync has been an option for directories, but with org files, it's
possible that
> the contents may need to be merged.
> 
> As you might guess, the laptop is not always connected to the same network as
> the desktop, but eventually, they get hooked up, so using a single file shared
by
> both computer is not an option.
> 
> Ideally, I'd like a platform-neutral approach but I'd be OK with a
Windows-only
> solution. So my questions are:
> 
> 1) What have people done in Emacs to sync up files in a somewhat
>    automated fashion?
> 
> 2) Is this best handled outside of Emacs with something like git (and
>    mapping drives in Windows)?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sarir
> 
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