Re: Problem with sync on an ARM Mac

Greg Michael <[email protected]> writes:
> Maybe on the first run of unison, the current hostname (perhaps editable
> before saving) could be written to a file 'unisonlocalhostname' together
> with the other archive files, and therafter taken from there. Should be as
> stable as the archive.

I think that could easily cause more trouble than it solves.  Because if
one then later deliberately changes the name of the host, the recorded
name doesn't change, which might be easy to forget, it invalidates the
principle "Unison records things based on the host name".  Also, if
there are multiple users, each user has a separate
~/.unison/originalhostname file with possibly different contents, and
also it's not clear the best way to make this operate symmetrically
between the host running Unison and the remote host.

If you want to pursue this concept, I'd suggest recording not the
current hostname but a UUID and calling it a "host identity" or better a
"sync identity" because they'd be different for different users (or
really, different .unison directories).

Dale

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