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

[Derek Rayside]

I'm not sure I understand your question, but I use unison because I use 
multiple computers (half a dozen or so, various operating systems).  When 
I log in, I just update the files on the local machine, work on them, and 
then "check them back in".  It's sort of a lightweight CVS.

There was an article on/by Bill Gates in Fortune or BusinessWeek or 
something like that recently in which he mentioned that he also 
synchronizes his files across multiple machines (although presumably he 
does not use unison for this job).

Some people use unison for backup.  Many external hard drives come with 
synchronization programs for this purpose (although these programs, in my 
experience, are more "user friendly" and have fewer features and 
guarantees than unison does).

Some sysadmin's use unison like rsync to maintain mirrors of filesets 
between various servers.

Of the eight people in research group I'm in, three of use unison as part 
of our regular routine.  That's probably a higher percentage than the 
regular population.


On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Yu-Hui Liu wrote:

> Hi, there,
>
> That could be a strange question. ;)
>
> I can understand the features of Unison from reading the User Manual.
> But I still can't imagine who will use it besides a group of people who
> are managing a set of documents, to change the docs on individual's
> computer and put them together in a central repository. So still want to
> know how widely it is used.
>
> Thanks.
> Calvin
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