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… and lose change history, handle merge conflicts by yourself (or lose edits made on other systems if you ever forget to re-sync), and all the other features of
by 5e92cb50239222b 4y ago
… and lose change history, handle merge conflicts by yourself (or lose edits made on other systems if you ever forget to re-sync), and all the other features of a proper VCS.
- heyoni 4y agoThese comments are like that famous one where dropbox was announced on HN and someone replied to it with an rsync script “that is essentially the same”. What’s it called when people do that?
- politelemon 4y agoPooh-poohing? Dismissiveness? Being an HNer?
- marcinreal 4y agoHah, I recently had to setup a cronjob that rsync's my org-mode files to iCloud. (iCloud didn't work with symlinks, but I needed to somehow sync my org-mode files to my phone.) Anyway, my org directory happens to be a git repo, and I rsync the whole repo including .git, so that's technically something you can do. :)