On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 07:32:57AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:26:37AM +0000, T o n g wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone knows a good bi-directional file-synchronization tool that can > > synchronize changes to files and directories in both directions on > > different hosts, propagating the changes between them? > > > > This is mainly use to synchronize files and directories between my > > notebook and desktop (at home and at work). Any good recommendation? > > > > syrep is too limited, unison seems to be the exact tool that I'm looking > > for, just I want to avoid its dependency (OCaml) if possible. > > I have used unison for quite a while for this purpose and although it > does what it claims, I find it doesn't really suit my needs. First, it > is slow (or seems so to me), it does seem to fail randomly on some > files, and I don't like it's conflict resolution interface. But the > real reason I'm not liking it now, after about two years of using it > to sync my desktop and my laptop, is that I don't think it will work > well for adding additional machines. > > But all of these reasons to not use unison are mostly personal to > me. It definitely suited my needs quite well for quite a while. > > I'm planning to move to keeping all of /home in git and giving that a > try. You might want to read: http://joey.kitenet.net/svnhome/ and the > various links from there.
I am not using it but keeping eye on these pages... This page may be good to check these days. http://joey.kitenet.net/blog/git/ > A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
