Mercurial and word files

[Faheem Mitha]

On Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:00:16 +0200, hg user <mercurialuser at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Did you hear my wife screaming after realizing that her word file (she was
> working on it since a long time) was lost forever ? And of course no backup
> were ever done ?
>
> Ok, now that I have a private mercurial server I can reach by simple http, I
> was thinking about using it as a remote backup server - I know that rsync
> may be a better solution, but Mercurial can do versioning.... and my wife
> tipical pattern usage is to create a file, a couple of edits and no even
> opening it again before one year (they are classworks....)
>
> My idea is to create a small batch file (or wsh) that addremoves all .doc
> files, do a commit -m "(date/hour)" then a push.....
>
> What do you think about it ?

Sounds reasonable. Were you planning to use the notify extension to
send emails on push?
                                                            Faheem.