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by xenoscopic 1338 days ago
Also, while Mutagen's exact implementation is novel in a number of ways, I would be remiss to not point out that huge amount of academic work in this field was done by Benjamin Pierce[0] and later implemented in Unison[1].

[0]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#Synch... [1]: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

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I’ve been using unison for what feels like 14 years. Once working it was great but it always took me a while to figure out the exact command line options I wanted. Beautiful tool.
> but it always took me a while to figure out the exact command line options I wanted.

Reminds me of my occasional use of rsync. I'm always afraid of invoking it wrong and synching in the wrong direction.

Thank you so much for the great replies!