Bazaar iDisk February 22, 2009
Posted by geekygrad in bazaar, idisk.add a comment
For a while now I’ve been using the Bazaar distributed revision control system to let me manage a few LaTeX documents and a lot of analysis code written in MATLAB. I use it to sync changes among my home and office computers plus my Macbook Pro. While one of the brilliant features of Bazaar is the idea that every computer has full history and can work disconnected, I was thinking it would be great idea if a Bazaar branch could also be on my iDisk.
Turns out you can’t do this – although Bazaar will see it as a normal directory it doesn’t support some file locking functionality that Bazaar needs. I suspect this is more to do with translating filesystem operations to WebDAV requests, rather than any particular problem with iDisk. Unfortunate however, when you consider WebDAV would be ideally suited to this task.
