John Demme wrote:
On Jan 29, 2008 4:49 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
John Demme wrote:
> Yes- for some time I was using unison to synchronize parts of my
home
> directory between my notebook and desktop.
[snip]
>
> It's a nice program, but kinda of a pain sometimes when you have to
> tell it which copy to overwrite. Maybe it's gotten better about
that.
I'm curious what you mean by this?
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I don't recall all of the details since it's been some time, but I
recall clicking the "left to right" button lots and lots of times when
there were a series of files it couldn't figure out- either oddly
deleted or conflicting or perhaps other other odd situations. I
remember having to do it a bunch, and finding it very annoying and a
bit stupid. Perhaps I just couldn't shift-click and specify the
transfer direction for a bunch of files in the GTK interface.
I don't remember off hand if you can do multiple selection of items in
the interface, so that certainly could be a shortcoming. As far as
Unison asking about conflicts, you can set up some default preferences
to resolve conflicts (e.g. always use version with newest time stamp,
always used version from system foo, etc.). You can even specify
particular preferences for particular paths on the machine (i.e. always
used newest version in /home/bar/tmp). Beyond that, I'm not sure how an
automated system could resolve these conflicts without human
intervention. It probably is useful to note that it can present you
with a diff of two versions and also has some tools for merging two
version, though I haven't used the latter.
The only thing I've noticed is that sometimes it says that the
properties of a file have changed and I'm not sure why. If the copy of
the file on the other machine has also changed, then this causes a
conflict, even though I almost certainly want the version with
substantive changes not just changes in file properties. I don't know
if there's a way that can be dealt with.
Nick
