Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by _o-O-o_ » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 6:18 PM UTC

Unison File Synchronizer
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Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by rgovostes » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 6:39 PM UTC

From the changelog:

> Further improvements to the OS X GUI (thanks to Alan Schmitt and Craig Federighi).

Here are Craig's commits:

- https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/commit/48f8e1b27edbe2df...

- https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/commit/6645d1793ce843f6...

Around the same time, Dave Abrahams, now of Apple's Swift team, makes an appearance on the unison-hackers mailing list.

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by throw0101a » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

Not to be confused with Panic's Usenet/NNTP client:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_(Usenet_client)

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by avhception » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

I can't praise Unison enough. I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across. I've donated multiple times over the years.

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by sansnomme » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 6:48 PM UTC

How difficult would it be to build a Dropbox clone on top of this?

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by bloopernova » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 6:59 PM UTC

sansnomme wrote: post #5

How difficult would it be to build a Dropbox clone on top of this?

Do you mean rclone or a whole service like Dropbox? (Rclone is pretty amazing, btw)

https://rclone.org/

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by sansnomme » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 7:01 PM UTC

bloopernova wrote: post #6

sansnomme wrote: post #5

How difficult would it be to build a Dropbox clone on top of this?

Do you mean rclone or a whole service like Dropbox? (Rclone is pretty amazing, btw) https://rclone.org/

Automated filesync cross-platform. Not git-style manual push pull. More of leave and forget and only intervene when there's a file conflict.

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by adrianmonk » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC

sansnomme wrote: post #5

How difficult would it be to build a Dropbox clone on top of this?

Are you aware of Syncthing? What it is seems pretty close to what you'd get if you did that.

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by Nux » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

sansnomme wrote: post #7

bloopernova wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mean rclone or a whole service like Dropbox? (Rclone is pretty amazing, btw) https://rclone.org/

Automated filesync cross-platform. Not git-style manual push pull. More of leave and forget and only intervene when there's a file conflict.

Like Syncthing?

Re: Unison File Synchronizer

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Post by rwmj » Tue, Aug 06, 2019, 7:06 PM UTC

avhception wrote: post #4

I can't praise Unison enough. I've been using it every day for over 10 years and is easily one of the most useful pieces of software I've ever come across. I've donated multiple times over the years.

I'm a maintainer of the Unison package in Fedora and I'd love to know which version(s) of Unison you use day to day.

In Fedora (and I think this applies in Debian too) we have to maintain 3 versions because Unison isn't interoperable across minor releases. For this reason we package 2.13, 2.27 and 2.40, and I think there is discussion about packaging the latest release too. Keeping these ancient (esp 2.13) versions going is a pain to say the least.