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This fixes nothing. > I don't want to make a fucking github repo to sync everything > The learning experience here is that people DO OR CAN NOT ALWAYS BACKUP.

by azeirah 12y ago

This fixes nothing. > I don't want to make a fucking github repo to sync everything > The learning experience here is that people DO OR CAN NOT ALWAYS BACKUP. Even seasoned people can be in a hurry sometimes. With that I meant, do not always have the time. It should be fully transparent, no setup required.

andrewchambers 12y ago
I'm working on an open source tool which is designed to be a zero config right click context menu with a two entries, "snapshot" and "restore". When you are offline or online it works with a single click, then syncs to a server once internet is restored. It never deletes old versions, you always have the whole history. It also is encrypted client side and has data de-duplication. (The deduplication means you can keep snapshotting directories on a timer, and only changes are uploaded) It is not exactly what you described, but I can ping you when it is ready for people to test.
__david__ 12y ago
He said he doesn't want a github repo. A local git repo is one "git init" away. That's easier to do than getting a remote file system mounted. Pushing and pulling from local computers is also dead simple (do people really not have ssh set up?).
- NeutronBoy 12y ago
  It sounds easy, but try doing that across my Ubuntu laptop, Windows desktop, Android phone, and iPad. Not going to happen. I mean, do you set up a scheduled task to commit and pull every 5 mins? What happens when you get conflicts? Can you even do that on an iPad? The closest I've gotten to this nirvana is setting up OwnCloud on my own server, as a personal Dropbox. Can access it locally, or remotely over my VPN
  - db48x 12y ago
    could git annex assistant, it does all that for you.
Arcsech 12y ago
One could probably script a customizable text editor (Emacs, Sublime Text, etc) to automatically init and commit on save to a local revision control repository. That's kind of a hack though. OS X's Time Machine feature sounds similar to what you want, if it watched for changes constantly instead of every time period (hour I think?). Does anybody know of some open source project similar to Time Machine? I imagine it could be adapted to such a task.
- patzerhacker 12y ago
  What you really want is a versioning file system.
  - azeirah 12y ago
    Exactly.
Nadya 12y ago
Git is not "fucking Github".

by azeirah 12y ago

andrewchambers 12y ago

I'm working on an open source tool which is designed to be a zero config right click context menu with a two entries, "snapshot" and "restore". When you are offline or online it works with a single click, then syncs to a server once internet is restored. It never deletes old versions, you always have the whole history. It also is encrypted client side and has data de-duplication. (The deduplication means you can keep snapshotting directories on a timer, and only changes are uploaded) It is not exactly what you described, but I can ping you when it is ready for people to test.

__david__ 12y ago

He said he doesn't want a github repo. A local git repo is one "git init" away. That's easier to do than getting a remote file system mounted. Pushing and pulling from local computers is also dead simple (do people really not have ssh set up?).

NeutronBoy 12y ago
It sounds easy, but try doing that across my Ubuntu laptop, Windows desktop, Android phone, and iPad. Not going to happen. I mean, do you set up a scheduled task to commit and pull every 5 mins? What happens when you get conflicts? Can you even do that on an iPad? The closest I've gotten to this nirvana is setting up OwnCloud on my own server, as a personal Dropbox. Can access it locally, or remotely over my VPN
- db48x 12y ago
  could git annex assistant, it does all that for you.

Arcsech 12y ago

One could probably script a customizable text editor (Emacs, Sublime Text, etc) to automatically init and commit on save to a local revision control repository. That's kind of a hack though. OS X's Time Machine feature sounds similar to what you want, if it watched for changes constantly instead of every time period (hour I think?). Does anybody know of some open source project similar to Time Machine? I imagine it could be adapted to such a task.

patzerhacker 12y ago
What you really want is a versioning file system.
- azeirah 12y ago
  Exactly.

Nadya 12y ago

Git is not "fucking Github".