Alan, Thanks for the response. Which extended attributes are you referring to? I see this flag in the Unison docs: "-rsrc xxx synchronize resource forks and...
Noam Birnbaum
noam@...
Oct 1, 2007 10:02 am
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... It's the xattr stuff: http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/macosx-10-4.ars/7 It was new in Tiger. Alan -- Alan Schmitt <http://alan.petitepomme.net/> The...
rsync is two way only if the timestamps are all correct, which is easy to assure, and if you are sure there will never be conflicts (a file being subject to...
So it sounds like if ACL's are used on either system, unison will not sync these. How do the speeds compare between rsync and unison? I thought unison uses...
Noam Birnbaum
noam@...
Oct 1, 2007 6:17 pm
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... rsync does operate solely using the time stamps. in a bidirectional sync the newest replica always wins (no conflict detection). I used rsync for syncing...
All of a sudden my Unison connection attempts fail. The command line version of the scenario: ~$ unison 2007-10-02 10:59:27.767 Unison[12423] Connecting... ...
Hi all, I'm putting together a proposal for a unison system synchronizing two Mac OS X servers. Can you give me an estimate for how long it would take a...
... I'd say that most of the time would be spent configuring the ssh connection between the machines. After that it's just a matter of putting the command line...
Hey all, Since it seems that the Mac OS X version of the GUI (using gtk) is still in development phase, I'll have to roll out unison via command- line only. ...
... There is also a native GUI in development, but it might not fit what you want to do. ... I would investigate the command line options concerning the output...
I'm sure this sounds stupid to the tech guys on this list, but I really can't figure out how to install Unison 2.17.1 on Ubuntu. I've installed 2.13.16 from...
Why is Unison so unhelpful in the way it handles Unix symlinks when syncing to Windows, i.e. reporting an error every time it finds one that's not explicitly...
... Actually, I think the current practice of people posting bugs to the mailing list is better than a real bug database like bugzilla. Storing things in a...
Hi, I switched to my new MacBook and wanted to install Unison 2.28.17 on it. I first installed unison 2.13 via MacPorts to have the necessary packages (OCaml)...
... You know that using bugzilla, you can post to the mailing list every bugs submitted to the database. This way, you will have a DB and a mail to the mailing...
It looks like your OCaml installation is not working at all. You might have better luck if you install OCaml directly (this is usually easy) instead of...
... Yes. Or, to be more specific, what I'm against is (a) spending any time at the moment setting up a BTS (as opposed to actually reading and responding to...
Hi, I've been looking at the query you sent a few weeks ago. I don't have a very clear understanding of what might be going on (I agree with Derek that it may...
... I like this idea. However, since I'm struggling at the moment to find time to finish polishing 2.27 to become the new stable release, I am not going to...
Hi, Benjamin, happy to hear from you, I haven't gotten much further since I have sent my original email, though I tried quite hard. I'll try more using your...
... I understand poing a) and b) ;-) (and my question was made on purpose). So, my next question is: since unison is "community maintained" and that "you don't...
Can anyone help with this? I've asked on the Ubuntu forum too but haven't had any help. I'm sure it's very simple, but northing's simple until you know how...
Hi, The file INSTALL in the source distribution (and the identical section of the user manual) gives pretty explicit instructions. I'm not quite sure what...
Alan, Thanks for the response. Yes, I looked into the native GUI but since it's still in development phase, after trying to install the various packages for...
... Well, the answer to this one is simple: The scripts, makefiles, etc. that we use to build export versions of Unison, maintain the change log, etc., are all...
... OK -- in fact if you were hesitating concerning this, i think i will have propose you to migrate whatever you want to this site. But anyway, you have good...
Hi Yang, I finally got a chance to track this down. As you said, the new ARCH wasn't getting stashed away after the merge. I (believe I've) fixed this in...
Dear developers, I think unison is the best existing syncing tool. But to me there seems to be one thing missing: I want to process synchronisation of two...