[Unison-hackers] What are the real user cases of using Unison?

[Andrew Schulman]

> - keeping data current: I have three computers; a desktop at work, a  
> desktop at home, and a laptop. I synchronize my "live" personal data  
> (the one I'm working on) between the home computer and the laptop,  
> and the work data between the work computer and the laptop. This way  
> I don't really care which computer I use and I have some data  
> redundancy.
> - backups: every night, my most crucial data is sent to our server at  
> work (it's a one way thing, so not really synchronization, but Unison  
> only propagates the files that have changed).
> - web development: all the websites I maintain are done locally  
> (either using hand coding or Rapid Weaver). I then use Unison to  
> propagate the changes. As before, only changed files get propagated.

These are basically the same three things that I use Unison for.