On Tuesday 24 October 2006 01:24 pm, David Kågedal wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Do any of you use a BBDB database on multiple machines? I have a > > laptop and a desktop, and I'd like to share my .bbdb, but I don't have > > a good idea about how to do this, and I particularly don't know how to > > avoid getting it messed up by concurrent modifications. Since BBDB > > does such a good job of pervading my emacs life, it's hard for me to > > know who "owns" it at any given time. > > > > Ideally, I'd like a solution that would permit having the BBDB even > > when off line. I.e., if I take my laptop somewhere, I'd like to have > > a local copy that I can use, and synch later on. > > I use CVS to synchronize. This means that I might need to to the > usual conflict resolution if I have modified the same entries on more > than one machine, but it works well. > > I set bbdb-file to point to a file inside a checked-out CVS tree > containing my bbdb file (and other stuff). That seems like a reasonably good off-the-shelf solution for managing the merge problem. I was just wondering, have you tried to add any automation to the process of committing? E.g., have you tried automating the commit when the bbdb file changes? I was wondering because it seemed to me that the human part in this procedure might be the weak link. Thanks for the suggestion, Best, R
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