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by nicbou 1255 days ago
I use Google Drive to sync my uncommitted project code between my big laptop and my small laptop.

In theory, I could just open the small laptop and let it sync for a few minutes, then head out.

In practice, Google Drive does not sync file permissions, and at least one renamed my entire folder $foldername (1), breaking everything and requiring two hours and a lot of bandwidth to fix.

It also can't ignore directories that are there, but don't need to be synced. For example, build directories that contain large files that can be regenerated on the fly.

Rsync would be better.

2 comments

> It also can't ignore directories that are there, but don't need to be synced.

Try https://www.insynchq.com/. You can configure .ignore-style rules for your Google Drive.

Probably just me being ignorant, but why are you not using Github for this?