On Jan 29, 2008 4:49 PM, Nick Cummings <[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? Are you talking about in the > situation of a "conflict" (i.e. copies of the file in question are > different on the two hosts and have both changed since last sync) or in > the situation of non-conflicting files? I don't know about when you > were using it last, but at this point it looks to me like you can > configure it to be pretty much as automatic as you like (with the > resulting possibility of bad automatic choices), though I haven't used > it that way personally. >
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. Another interesting note about Unison... It memory serves, it's written on OCaml. The first (only only one so far) program I've used in the language. Comments? ~John
