From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Git plus Syncthing: breaking hard links
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2016 08:48:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fuuymeg7.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: loom.20160407T014111-646@post.gmane.org
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
> Hi again Eric,
>
> On second thought, while symlinks may be worth trying, they might not work.
> I've noticed similar issues using Dropbox.
>
> If you put the file in your git repo and the symlink in Syncthing's repo,
> I'm guessing Syncthing will not follow the symlink, in which case it
> wouldn't sync the contents of the file. (I don't use Syncthing, so I could
> be wrong. If I am wrong, then this would probably solve the problem for you.)
>
> If you put the file in Syncthing and the symlink in the git repo, git will
> definitely not follow the symlink, so it will only store the symlink itself,
> meaning the file contents would no longer be stored in git. (This could
> work, but I doubt it's what you want.)
Yeah, I did think about symlinks, but think you're right -- they
probably won't function correctly no matter which "end" you put them in.
> It sounds like your workaround will solve the problem for you, so that's
> great. One suggestion though: I recommend excluding the .git directory from
> Syncthing. If anything happened on the other end and the git repo were
> accidentally corrupted, or if it was committed to on both ends before the
> changes were synced, your git repo could end up corrupted, and fixing it
> could be a lot of trouble.
>
> I've had a few problems like this before, so I no longer store VCS repos in
> Dropbox. I keep all my Org files in git repos, and I sync the Org files
> themselves, but the git repos are local to each system.
That's good advice, I think I'll follow it! Thanks for sharing your
experience.
Eric
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-07 0:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-05 6:34 [OT] Git plus Syncthing: breaking hard links Eric Abrahamsen
2016-04-05 7:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2016-04-05 8:04 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-04-05 12:45 ` Nick Dokos
2016-04-05 23:29 ` briangpowell .
2016-04-05 22:53 ` Tim Howes
2016-04-06 6:41 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-04-06 23:38 ` Adam Porter
2016-04-06 23:47 ` Adam Porter
2016-04-07 0:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
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