[Owncloud] .exclude/.ignore for the sync client, and improve polling

[Juan Carlos Cornejo]

Hi Timmeey & All:

So what I propose, and I've mentioned it to a few people already, is
that a list be published somewhere (preferably on the ownCloud.org
website) with a list of most common temporary files. Then that the
sync client (whatever it may be) ignores those files/directories by
default. But, rather than having to force the user with that decision,
the user of the client should have the ability to disable any of the
excluded files. This is, if for example, someone happened to want
their .svn and .git directories copied.

I would be more than happy to implement this on the Mirral client.

Any thoughts?

Best,
Juan Carlos

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Timmeey <timmeey at timmeey.de> wrote:
> I'm using the official Linux/ubuntu Client ( csync/mirall i think)
>
> And what Features do u mean?
> All of them? Or just the exclude Things?
>
>
>
> Am 12.05.2012 um 00:00 schrieb Juan Carlos Cornejo <mylists at paintblack.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry, is this the Mirall client you are speaking about? I hope to
>> copy over this feature to Mirall from Sync-Qt before the end of this
>> month.  Unless someone objects.
>>
>> Best,
>> Juan Carlos
>>
>> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Tim Hinkes <timmeey at timmeey.de> wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>>
>>> i just started using the sync client. And it's working "well". It does what
>>> it should do. But... I sync my whole Documents folder. And there are >5000
>>> files. So every polling takes much time, and produces heavy server/client
>>> load.
>>>
>>> I would suggest two parts of improvement.
>>>
>>> 1. We need some other polling. Comparing every "hash" value in the server
>>> database and the client sql table is not a good Idea. First Idea: hash the
>>> hashes, and then just compare these two values. This would reduce the server
>>> load(coz its only one sql command) and would speed up everything, and only
>>> if the two hashes differ, do a full polling. (or half polling like devide an
>>> conquer) until u got the changed file.
>>> Second idea, Give the server a changed-flag(for every snyc client that has
>>> "registred"). If something got changed on the server side just flip this
>>> flag, and the client only do a full poll when the flag got changed. Mybe we
>>> can combine these two ideas to just one
>>>
>>>
>>> 2. Many of my >5000 files are useless .svn/.git files that dont need to be
>>> synced. If we can teach the sync client to use some kind of .ignore list, it
>>> would reduce the files need to be synced.
>>> Maybe each OC user can set the ignore files online in there OC account, and
>>> the sync client fetch thes list, so there would be no need to give every
>>> instance of the client these list.
>>>
>>>
>>> I can give more details about my ideas, when u like them :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> TimmeeY
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