Syncing Bookmarks via CVS

[Rainer Dorsch]

On Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 11:37, Christian Mueller wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 21. Oktober 2003 09:34 schrieb Alexander Kellett:
> > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:17:37PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > > I am wondering, if there is an easy way to sync bookmarks.xml files on
> > > different machines. My initial idea was to put the bookmarks.xml in a
> > > directory which is in CVS and let CVS do the work (I need to take care
> > > somewhat that there are not too many collisions, but with many
> > > subdirectories that should work reasonably well.
> > >
> > > Now I found that when I do a
> > >
> > > 	ln -s ~/CVSed/bookmarks.xml .
> > > in
> > > 	~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror
> > >
> > > Then konqeror removes the link and stores a simple file there again,
> > > when I edit the bookmarks.
> >
> > i'll add a simple hack to detect the existance of a symlink
> > and follow it before writing out the file. for 3.3 i'm aiming
> > to get some proper infrastructure for bookmark syncing.
>
> For now Rainer could hack around the problem by putting the real
> directories and files in ~/.kde under CVS control.
> I've been doing it this way for about a year now and it works pretty well
> for me.  Now I would really miss the ability to say cvs diff on my bookmark
> file.  BTW, this also allows me to sync konqi's bookmarks between
> office and home  :-)
>
> I only added those directories and files to CVS that I actually want to be
> version controlled, e.g. addressbook, qtvision channels, bookmarks,
> but not the rc files that store settings like latest window size...
> they just change too often, and I don't need to store that info anyway.
>
> Well, it's not ideal, but it works.
>

Christian,

with the symbolic links I hoped that I can collect all these files in a single 
directory and thus do a single cvs diff/commit/... on this directory and 
there is not need to step into the specific dirs...

But you way of doing is is ways better than doing it not at all. 

Thanks,
Rainer