Copying vs of cloning?

Dustin Sallings dustin at spy.net
Wed Oct 3 00:04:20 CDT 2007


   Everyone who pulls from it is backing it up.  Everyone who pushes  
to it is backing up their code there.

   Having a hook that pushes to another server should give you triply  
redundant backups assuming you have only one developer.

-- 
Dustin Sallings (mobile)

On Oct 2, 2007, at 21:26, Greg Lindahl <lindahl at pbm.com> wrote:

>>> Speaking of backups and Mercurial, is it clever to back up a clone  
>>> of
>>> a repo instead of the repo itself
>>
>> Only if you don't mind your uncommitted work not being backed up...
>
> I'm talking about the central repo in a centralized repo setup.  So it
> never has uncommitted work. And I want its backup to be idiot-proof,
> so I don't mind writing a 70-line script to make it so.
>
> -- greg
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