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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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[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I kind of figured that is what you were trying to do by your scenario but wasn't completely sure of it. That's right though, if you want to keep the most recent version of the file then --update should do that for you. And you could write a simple script that does this each way, and schedule it to run however often. I saw your other comment now too, you might want to take a look into syncthing. Nothing against, rsync, I use it all the time for copying files but if this is something that you want to be continually synced then syncthing might be a better solution for you.

[–] waspentalive@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

After a session or two where I have perhaps only worked in A or B alone. I can manually trigger the shell script. Thanks for confirming tho.