Unison's UX has options? I did not know. I recommend treating unison like you do rsync -- read the manpage, configure it with config files and shell wrappers.

Unison's UX has options? I did not know. I recommend treating unison like you do rsync -- read the manpage, configure it with config files and shell wrappers. If you run it with "-ui text -auto", then it will print the list of changes, and ask: "do you want to proceed (y/n)", which is not that confusing. Treat it as mostly text-based syncer with UI as an extra bonus, and it will be much less confusing.