Unison In Anger
6 points by qiu
6 points by qiu
Quite a rare occurrence of a post about Unison.
It's almost 3 years since I stared using Unison for full home directory sync between my phone<->laptop<->desktop. This includes passwords stored in password-store. Couldn't live without it now ;)
I use Unison to sync my Documents directory (215GB, which also includes all my eBooks and all my scanned docs) across all my machines. I build it myself from source, as well as OCaml. It has no problems dealing with the 116GB Wikipedia ZIM file that lives in Documents/eBooks.
Fun fact: Xavier Leroy, author of OCaml, was a TA of mine with Serge Abiteboul, teaching CaML and instilling in me a deep hatred for the language. Yet Unison is cool enough to overcome this in a way that pandoc hasn't motivated me to install Haskell on all my machines.