[Dailydave] Revision control is great.

[Pedram Amini]

IDA Sync doesn't actually do revision control. It simply synchronizes 
names and comments across multiple IDBs connected to a central server in 
real-time.

A future version perhaps ...

Dude VanWinkle wrote:
> err http://labs.idefense.com/software/static.php#more_ida+sync
> 
> On 4/29/07, Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle at gmail.com> wrote:
>> kinda like IDA Sync?  http://www.openrce.org/downloads/details/2
>>
>> or am I totally off base?
>>
>> -JP
>>
>> On 4/19/07, Dave Aitel <dave at immunityinc.com> wrote:
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>>> Today in the great white north, the train was late by ten minutes. At
>>> first I thought there was going to be a riot, but then everyone just
>>> huddled into the stairwell for warmth like a group of emperor penguins.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyways, since I'm teaching, I mostly fix CANVAS bugs and prepare for
>>> class all night, but I've been slowly working on a new thing, which I
>>> hope will be done soon.
>>>
>>> Essentially the problem is that I want a bunch of people to be able to
>>> comment up a disassembly all at the same time, much like we all code
>>> on one exploit at the same time. I also am tired of commenting the
>>> same parts of dll's on various VM's just in different language packs.
>>> Bindiff solves the second problem, but there's a small part of this
>>> problem that I don't need a Bindiff to solve, and I still want to
>>> solve it. Likewise there are other issues I'd like to solve
>>> peripherally, and they're all built using different tools that don't
>>> work together. So I want to expose all those tools to each other and
>>> to my disassembler.
>>>
>>> Anyways, my attempted solution is this: When you click "export" in
>>> ImmDBG, I want it to export a semi-portable mapping file with all your
>>> names and comments and other data (analysis data or type data from
>>> unmidl, for example) to an XML file. If you want to include arbitrary
>>> Python objects in there as marshalled strings, that's cool too.
>>> Whatever you want goes into this structured XML file, which is then
>>> automatically synced to the main server with CVS/SVN. This buys us
>>> revision control for free. So when I install ImmDBG on some random VM,
>>> I point it at the company SVN server, and every time I attach to
>>> something any comments I'd done on those DLL's before get
>>> automatically imported, updated, changed, and commited.
>>>
>>> Likewise if I want to work on the XML file with PaiMai or Bindiff or
>>> whatever else, I can do that quite quickly and easily. And the whole
>>> team can work together the exact same way they work together on source
>>> code, using the exact same toolset they're used to.
>>>
>>> Just an idea.
>>>
>>> - -dave
>>>
>>> - -dave
>>>
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