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[Smith, Michael]

> I want to use mercurial to keep three completely independent machines
> in sync on a project.

I did this between home and work for a while using bundles. Each user had a repository with localtags representing the state of the remote repositories.

So if you have three users (or stations) called A, B and C, the project repository at B would have two local tags called A and C. To send changes to A a bundle would be created from the tag A to the tip. Ditto for C. Note that you can't use normal global tags for this because tagging creates new revisions. Believe me I tried and a horrible mess resulted. 

You need two scripts. One to send and one to receive. Both update the local tags for the remote site.

Regards,
Michael Smith



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