Re: syncthing, rsync for git; was: git setup
On Tue, 22 Aug 2023 19:27:57 +0000
Michael Kjörling <2695bd53d63c@ewoof.net> wrote:
> On 22 Aug 2023 14:33 -0400, from celejar@gmail.com (Celejar):
> >> Git tends to be very rsync-friendly.
> >
> > I do something similar - I use syncthing to automatically keep the git
> > repositories on two of my machines in sync. rsync may be better, but
> > syncthing has more or less worked for me.
>
> I'm not really familiar with syncthing, but it looks like it and rsync
> solve somewhat different problems; rsync being primarily intended to
> update one location (the destination) to match another (the source),
> whereas syncthing is primarily intended to update both locations such
> that they match (but can be run in one-way mode if desired).
>
> Therefore syncthing would seem to be more analogous to unison than to
> rsync.
Correct. My use case is two systems both used for development
(I work sometimes on a laptop and sometimes on a desktop). I understand
that this is not the OP's case and the subject of the thread, and I
apologize for the confusion.
> I know of rsync's shortcomings in the bidirectional-sync use case
> because I looked for a good while for a way to get it to do that
> safely, before coming across unison which being designed for that
> solved that problem with for all intents and purposes no fuss at all.
--
Celejar
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