Conceptual Question about Repos and structuring development workspaces...

[Alec Berryman]

Stuart W. Marks on 2007-03-22 20:25:54 -0700:

> Sean wrote:
> >Does mercurial play nice with unison ?
> >
> >I sync my entire customer tree to an external usb and carry it around
> >with me.
>
> By unison, do you mean this one?
>
> http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/index.html
>
> I think unison is a pretty good file synchronizer (I use it myself) but if
> you have your stuff in hg you don't need unison anymore. Once you have
> everything in hg, you can put repos on the USB drive and on your desktop
> (or whever) use hg operations to propagate changes back and forth. This is
> probably better than unison, since hg will merge non-conflicting changes
> and keep track of the history of all changes made.

If you only edit one copy in between each unison synchronization, you
should be fine, but if you edit both of them and then have unison
synchronize, you'll run into problems.