A quick question about rsync - eviltoast

I have worked on a file in Directory A. There is a file with the same name in directory B which is an older version of that same file. I rsync everything from B to A.

What happens to my work in the file in directory A?

    • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneOP
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      1 year ago

      Thanks - Looking at the man page, It looks like I would want --update in this case as it would cause the newer version to be present in both directories afterward.

  • sportsfork@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    there are a gazillion switches to control the behavior. Like, --ignore-existing, to not overwrite any existing files …

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    1 year ago

    The actual use case: I have an emulator that uses a directory as the ‘system disk’ of the computer being emulated, but I have one of these on each of two machines. As I make updates I want to have the proper files updated on the other directory so between changes on the two emulators the most recent is synced to the other directory.

    It seems I will need to use 2 rsync commands, one in each direction. Update A from B, then update B from A.

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    1 year ago

    I have no idea what types of files these are but it could turn out that you should rather use Git and push/pull from both sides which could works better.

    Just a suggestion :)