On Sun, Dec 04, 2022 at 02:26:52PM +0100, rozanski.s...@gmail.com wrote:

> Thank you very much for the clarification.
> While I still believe that from a user's point of view, the collaboration of
> both tools (GIT and e.g.: OneDrive) is an idiosyncratic "complement", I
> understand that there are technical issues to make it work properly.
> I hope that someday these problems can be overcome.

Well, and note that you might explore other parts of the solution space ;-)

For instance,

 - rclone, <https://rclone.org/> supports every popular cloud provider, and,
   being a tool written for heavy duty tasks, provides for fine-grained
   control over what is synchronized.

   The inconveniences of using it are:

   - You'd need to write a script which calls rclone with a set of
     command-line parameters which do what you need (sync some folders while
     exclude some subfolders in them). Luckily, rclone implements the "dry
     run" mode of operation so you can tinker with its parameters until a dry
     run shows it's about to do exactly what you want.

   - You'd need to create a scheduler job to run rclone periodically: it has
     no continuously-running "monitoring" service which would sync stuff
     "ASAP".

 - SyncThing, <https://syncthing.net> is a user-friendly tool which works
   excatly like all those commercial cloud-sync pieces of software, but is
   heavily confgurable. For instance, [1] deals with exactly your case.

   A drawback is that you have to host its "cloud part" somewhere - usually on
   a rented VPS/VDS, or on a computer at your friend's basement.
   This is precisely what most users of commercial cloud providers are
   understandably reluctant to do for a multitude of reasons.

FWIW, I personally use rclone to sync photos from my laptop to the cloud.
Since I'm a bit of a tech-freak, I use strong encryption when doing so as it's
trivial with rclone.

 1. https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-do-i-ignore-folders-and-files/15004/5

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