Re: Problem with sync on an ARM Mac

Greg Michael <[email protected]> writes:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but I think if you change the hostname without
> updating the unisonlocalhostname, everything should still work fine. For
> myself, since the first time of needing to set unisonlocalhostname, I
> always do it - so this would just make it more convenient (and avoid the
> confusion when the problem of a changing hostname first crops up). Sure - a
> UUID would be fine, but the hostname is the obvious memorable label.
>
> Multiple users would have multiple archives, so each, potentially, could
> name the host as they like - just as they can with UNISONLOCALHOSTNAME.

That all sounds right.

The architectural cleanliness issue is about "do we say this is
hostname, because we used to use hostname" and "do (a number of)
computers even have a hostname, in 2024, compared to when unison was
written".  The second one is whether this sync identifier is about the
computer that the replica is attached to at the moment, or about the
replica itself.

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