Public bug reported:
After encountering persistent errors during synchronization, I'm
intending to overwrite the calendar on my phone with the calendar from
the server, i.e. lose any changes that I might have done "locally" on
the phone.
However, the --sync options seems to have a confusing way to identify
each side:
--sync|-s <mode>|?
Temporarily synchronize the active datastores in that mode. Useful
for a `refresh-from-local` or `refresh-from-remote` sync which
clears all data at one end and copies all items from the other.
**Warning:** `local` is the data accessed via the sync config
directly and `remote` is the data on the peer, regardless
where the data is actually stored physically.
This indeed seems to hint that local might not actually be the phone
(where I run the command) but the server. _Might_, because it might also
be the other way round. And there seems to be no obvious way of display
the URL of the peer, and/or the URL of the "sync config".
1.
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
2.
# apt-cache policy syncevolution
syncevolution:
Installed: 1.5.1+15.04.20160706-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 1.5.1+15.04.20160706-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 1.5.1+15.04.20160706-0ubuntu1 0
1001
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/stable-snapshot/ubuntu/
vivid/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.5-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports/ vivid/universe armhf Packages
3. What I expect to happen
a. sync-modes should be named after "sync config" and "peer", if these are
the concepts used internally by sync-evolution rather than the potentially
confusing "local" and "remote"
--sync|-s <mode>|?
Temporarily synchronize the active datastores in that mode. Useful
for a `refresh-from-sync-config` or `refresh-from-peer` sync which
clears all data at one end and copies all items from the other.
To tell which data store is which, use the --print-sync-config-url and
--print-peer-url commands.
The local calendar's URL would then be called (for example) evolution:aev and
the remote URL https://server.com.lu/users/[email protected]/calendar
4. What happened instead
A vague warning not to get local and remote mixed up, but without any clear
guideline to tell which is which. Even grepping the .config files doesn't help,
as the server's URL shows in a file under "sources" rather than "peers" or
"sync-configs"
When talking about the direction of a copy, there should be no doubt nor
ambiguity, or else someone *will* overwrite a good copy with a bad.
** Affects: syncevolution (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
Syncevolution should use unambiguous identifications about which store
is which
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