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You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mou
by dmd 2y ago
You can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
- EGreg 2y agoNot sure why this would be easier or better FTP is not encrypted. Unless you use SFTP maybe. (I wrote an SFTP and FTP-over-SSH client in Visual Basic like 20 yesrs ago lol). And even then, you miss out on all the optimizations with prolly trees and other goodness that rsync has. No, sorry, that solution sucks. CVS? That’s super outdated.
- fallingsquirrel 2y agoIt's a reference to the infamous dropbox comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 Anyways, if you're at the grocery store and you need to see your shopping list, and you're happy with your current workflow of opening up Termux and typing `rsync -avrsomgwtfbbq me@server/shopping-list.txt` with your thumbs, then by all means keep doing that! For the rest of us, there's Syncthing.
- EGreg 2y agoYeah but on the substance, none of your countrexamples make sense SyncThing doesnt actually have an iOS client that syncs reliably. I tried some, when I was test driving it and Resilio Sync and others. https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-for-ios/16045 https://forum.syncthing.net/t/syncthing-for-ios/16045 On your phone you’d probably just visit a website, and access your server via HTTP.