Dumb Sling

I had to do a intermediate thing - IDK what happened.

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My SurfacePro3 no longer turns on (as of … Tuesday?) and in a panic - I started using a pi5 for desktop work. This has been much smoother/simpler/cleaner and has filled me with joy - but - for reasons I’ve yet to diagnose I can’t connect from my desktop to my shugits service.¹ The solution I spun out of hay was/is to use a second intermediate host to “jump” or “slingshot” repositories between the two.

This is the process;

1. clone the repo into ~/dumb-sling/ so it has the proper default

2. add a hooks section to the end of ~/dumb-sling/<repo name>/.hg/hgrc

   [hooks]
   changegroup = hg push --new-branch
   

3. add crontab -e entries to push and pull

   # every 5 minutes pull changes into the sling
   */5 *    *   *   *   hg --cwd ~/dumb-sling/shugits pull default
   */5 *    *   *   *   hg --cwd ~/dumb-sling/peterblog pull default
   
   
   # every 45 minutes push changes from the sling
   */45 *    *   *   *   hg --cwd ~/dumb-sling/shugits push default
   */45 *    *   *   *   hg --cwd ~/dumb-sling/peterblog push default
   

So … so … why’d I write that down?

Because - I want to add another repo to the list!

(this is a notebook, right?)

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1. Replacing/updating/fixing my shugits instance has been … a thing … for awhile. So … here goes a hacked-fix … ↩︎