Tangential question about bzr concepts

[Andrew S. Townley]

Hi Guys,

This isn't specifically a bzr question, but I'm trying to see if bzr (or
parts thereof) could be used as the solution.

If you were prepared to accept the risk of not keeping version history,
could the logic in bzr as a distributed VCS be used to assist in keeping
peer-to-peer replicas (say, of a filesystem) in sync.  Maybe there's
something to do this already, but rsync doesn't merge changes to files.

What I want is that if I've made a change to a text file (maybe on both
systems), those changes would be merged and propagated to all of the
hosts, meaning that I wouldn't really lose any data.  I know this
problem has been solved for databases with multi-master capabilities,
but I was wondering if something like the merge stuff in bzr would
assist in doing it for filesystems.

This was just something I was wondering about, and I know it isn't
directly related, but thanks for the tolerance :)

Thanks in advance,

ast
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