Unison non-recursive synchronization: how?

[theYinYeti]

Hello,

 

I want to use Unison in batch mode for a given path without recursivity. What I have so far does not work.

 

Here's my test config:

$ find /home/yves/test
/home/yves/test/
/home/yves/test/client
/home/yves/test/client/var
/home/yves/test/client/var/unison
/home/yves/test/client/var/unison/default.prf
/home/yves/test/client/var/unison/backup
/home/yves/test/client/share
/home/yves/test/client/share/rep
/home/yves/test/server
/home/yves/test/server/share
/home/yves/test/server/share/rep

$ cat /home/yves/test/client/var/unison/default.prf
sortbysize = true
group = true
owner = true
times = true
perms = -1

 

I then synchronize client/share and server/share:

$ UNISON=/home/yves/test/client/var/unison \
 unison default /home/yves/test/client/share ssh://yves@localhost//home/yves/test/server/share \
 -ui text -dumbtty \
 -backupdir /home/yves/test/client/var/unison/backup \
 -logfile /home/yves/test/client/var/unison/log \
 -sshargs -x

 

From there, I create a file in the client's "rep", and a non-empty sub-directory in the server's "rep", and I try and synchronize both non-recursively using the path and ignore parameters:

$ touch /home/yves/test/client/share/rep/repfic
$ mkdir /home/yves/test/server/share/rep/reprep
$ touch /home/yves/test/server/share/rep/reprep/reprepfic
$ UNISON=/home/yves/test/client/var/unison \
 unison default /home/yves/test/client/share ssh://yves@localhost//home/yves/test/server/share \
 -ui text -dumbtty -auto -contactquietly -silent -batch -terse \
 -backupdir /home/yves/test/client/var/unison/backup \
 -logfile /home/yves/test/client/var/unison/log \
 -sshargs -x -path "Path rep" -ignore "Path rep/*/*"

 

I expected rep/repfic to go to the server, and rep/reprep (but not rep/reprep/reprepfic) to go to the client. Instead, nothing happens. Do you understand why?

 

Yves.

 

//EDIT

Out of curiosity, I looked at my /home/yves/test/client/var/unison/log file, and Surprise! here's the content:

UNISON started propagating changes at 19:40:40 on 26 Feb 2008
[BGN] Copying rep/repfic
 from /home/yves/test/client/share
 to //localhost//home/yves/test/server/share
[BGN] Copying rep/reprep
 from //localhost//home/yves/test/server/share
 to /home/yves/test/client/share
[END] Copying rep/reprep
[END] Copying rep/repfic
UNISON finished propagating changes at 19:40:40 on 26 Feb 2008


Synchronization complete  (2 items transferred, 0 skipped, 0 failures)

 

This is what I expect! Why is the result different?

 

//EDIT 2

I tried the newer version 2.27.57 from source. Now there's not even a log file to agree with me :(

Once the -auto -contactquietly -silent -batch -terse options are removed, the software just says:

Nothing to do: replicas have not changed since last sync.

Edited February 28, 2008 by theYinYeti

[theYinYeti]

I misread the manuel, even though I read it many many times. I'm at fault:

-path "Path rep"

must be written

-path "rep"

instead.

 

Yves.