A git based file synchronization tool (like dropbox, but improved).
If you want something to synchronize your files and having your files in git repository is something you want, then this is for you. Also, you probably need to know how to use git to use this program (whenever something goes wrong, merge conflict or whatever).
- server that you can connect with ssh and that has git installed
- ssh-configuration that allows you to just ssh to server without any (password) prompt
- locally, git and inotify-tools (or whatever package that has inotifywait) installed
- some recent version of ruby
- create bare git repository on your remote machine
- clone this repo
- use init.rb to initialize repo locally (or just use your git skills)
- use start-sync.sh to start sync (or just run sync.rb)
Now your local files are synchronized with remote repository. You can add other systems to use the same remote and the files are kept in sync.
For example:
foo$ ssh remote-server
blah ~$ mkdir sync.git && git init --bare
blah sync.git$ exit
foo$ git clone https://github.com/juho-p/improved-sync.git
foo$ cd improved-sync
foo$ ./init.rb ~/sync remote-server sync.git
foo$ ./start-sync.sh
Want to stop syncing? Just run stop-sync.sh. Otherwise it's probably a good
idea to configure start-sync.sh to start whenever you login.
If something doesn't work, go to your local repo and see what's wrong using
git command. At least git pull && git push should work without errors, or
you have no hope to run this program. Or you can use any git GUI program out
there if you don't know how to CLI.
You have bare git repository at remote machine and git repository at local
machine. This program listens both ends and whenever change happens, after some
delay it uses git command line tools to synchronize the files.
If something goes wrong, you have to fix everything yourself. If you don't know how to use git.