1 yr. ago • 95%

A quick question about rsync

I have worked on a file in Directory A. There is a file with the same name in directory B which is an older version of that same file. I rsync everything from B to A.

What happens to my work in the file in directory A?

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- Thanks - Looking at the man page, It looks like I would want --update in this case as it would cause the newer version to be present in both directories afterward.
  
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there are a gazillion switches to control the behavior. Like, --ignore-existing, to not overwrite any existing files ...

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A becomes B. But... you have a lot of options in case you want a different behavior.

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The actual use case: I have an emulator that uses a directory as the 'system disk' of the computer being emulated, but I have one of these on each of two machines. As I make updates I want to have the proper files updated on the other directory so between changes on the two emulators the most recent is synced to the other directory.

It seems I will need to use 2 rsync commands, one in each direction. Update A from B, then update B from A.

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I have no idea what types of files these are but it could turn out that you should rather use Git and push/pull from both sides which could works better.

Just a suggestion :)

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