[erlang-questions] rsync-like function in Erlang?

[Tuncer Ayaz]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Tuncer Ayaz <tuncer.ayaz@REDACTED> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:45 PM, Johan Holmberg <johan556@REDACTED> wrote:
>> 2008/5/20 Juan Jose Comellas <juanjo@REDACTED>:
>>> Have you thought about using a distributed version control system such as
>>> Git for this? I have the same problem, with the added need to track the
>>> history of changes of each file, and I'm planning to build an Erlang wrapper
>>> over Git. This wrapper could also provide a transactional interface to the
>>> filesystem, giving you the ability to rollback to a previous version of the
>>> file in case of a problem.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting idea. I have thought about using Subversion (the version
>> control system we normally use), but dismissed it as to complicated
>> (with the need for a third machine, the Subversion-server, and with
>> all the space overhead in the local .svn directories).
>>
>> Does Git work well on Windows? And can it operate in client-server
>> fashion, or does it need filesystem access between the machines?
>
> Git works on Windows but not yet quite as good as on the _you know
> where it originated :D_ OS

Let me correct my statement and tell you that the current preview
of msysgit looks pretty good. Definitely good enough to use.

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