rsync - Sep 2001 - File merging

Can rsync be made to merge files?  For instance, could I synchronize mboxes 
between multiple computers, even though they're all changing?

I have _serious_ doubts, because I think it would take a diff3, but a friend 
mentioned it, so I had to ask.

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Andy Goth  |  unununium@openverse.org  |  http://null.cc.uic.edu/~andy/

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth wrote:
> Can rsync be made to merge files?  For instance, could I synchronize mboxes
> between multiple computers, even though they're all changing?
Not if they are changing simultaneously.  You can't do that at all,
without a distributed filesystem with locking.

On the other hand, if only one system changes at a time rsync works fine.

Britton
>
> I have _serious_ doubts, because I think it would take a diff3, but a
friend
> mentioned it, so I had to ask.
>
> --
> Andy Goth  |  unununium@openverse.org  |  http://null.cc.uic.edu/~andy/
>
>