Unison file synchronization with safe, automatic conflict resolution?

06-03-2009	#1 (permalink)
uhcafigdc Just Joined! Join Date: May 2009 Location: East Coast USA Posts: 14	Unison file synchronization with safe, automatic conflict resolution? A conflict happens between directories A and B when a user modifies a file in both A and B before the next unison synchronization. I would like to set up unison to run automatically as a cron job, but I need to be able to have it resolve conflicts like these safely without my intervention. I don't know what the merge feature is capable of doing, but I don't want to overwrite or combine conflicting versions of files at all. In the case of a conflict, I would like unison to copy the file over using a different name so that nothing is overwritten. The end result would be something like A/file1 A/file1.001 B/file1 B/file1.001 However, I don't want copies of ALL files that are synchronized; I just want conflicts to be resolved this way. If I use these lines in my .prf... Code: backuplocation = local backupsuffix = .$VERSION maxbackups = 5 ...will I get 5 copies of EVERY file that is synchronized? Or... will it behave as I described, handling conflicts by making copies of those up to 5 times, while updating/deleting non-conflicting files on either side without backing up?

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