[Owncloud] Re: Server-Server Syncing

[Robin Appelman]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 13:52, Aamir Khan <ak4u2009 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Lets say we have a cloud named cloud PARENT. then we have two clouds CHILD-A
> and CHILD-B. Now i want to sync CHILD-A with PARENT which means i will
> transfer files from PARENT to CHILD-A. But lets say the process is something
> which occurs frequently. Then it would be better that we maintain CLOUD-A
> and PARENT as git repo and simply update git repo of CHILD-A as we want to
> sync the servers.
>
> There won't be any Problem with this system is if CHILD-A wants to sync with
> multiple PARENT repositories and i think there won't be any problem with bi
> directional data flow as well. But we would have to create diff files at
> time of syncing operations.
> Do anybody think that there is any problem in the approach?
>
> --
> Aamir Khan
> Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee,
> Roorkee, Uttarakhand,
> India , 247667
> Phone: +91 9557647357
> email:   aamirec at iitr.ernet.in
>             ak4u2009 at gmail.com

I think it's best to create diffs and commit them in the git repo
every time a file gets changed, this would also be usefull for
versioning and would limit merge conflicts by keeping commits small.

 - Robin Appelman