[Unison-hackers] Not picking up changes on Mac

[Isaac Schlueter]

Well, don't I feel like a doofus!  You try to do the right thing and
stfw, and still end up missing the answer.

Apparently this had to do with the permissions problem that was
resolved in this patch:
http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/pipermail/unison-hackers/2008-April/000818.html

In the meantime, I managed to get it working by making the permissions
on both roots the same.  One was 0777 and the other was 0755.

Sorry if this wasted anyone's time.

--i

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Isaac Schlueter <i at foohack.com> wrote:
> I'm using version 2.27.57 on a Leopard intel Mac.  I'm syncing to a
> RHEL box running the same version of Unison of course.  Here's the
> uname -a info for both:
> Darwin sistertrain-lm 9.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.5.0: Wed Sep  3
> 11:29:43 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.7.58~1/RELEASE_I386 i386 i386
> Linux visitbread.corp.yahoo.com 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 19
> 07:18:21 EST 2008 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> For some reason I can't seem to work out, it looks like Unison isn't
> scanning the whole directory for changes.  If I change a file on the
> Linux machine I'm syncing to, it picks that up, and pulls it over.
> But changes on the Mac never seem to be propagated to the Linux box.
>
> Here are the settings I'm using with Unison:
>
> yap.prf contains this:
> root = /Users/isaacs/dev/main/yahoo/yap/
> root = ssh://isaacs@visitbread.corp.yahoo.com//homes/isaacs/dev/main/yahoo/yap/
>
> The interactive command:
> unison -ui text -times -ignore 'Regex .*docs/2008[0-9]{4}/.*' yap
>
> The push command:
> unison -ui text -times -ignore 'Regex .*docs/2008[0-9]{4}/.*' -force
> /Users/isaacs/dev/main/yahoo/yap/ -batch -terse yap
>
> The batch repeat command:
> unison -ui text -times -ignore 'Regex .*docs/2008[0-9]{4}/.*' -terse
> -repeat 1 -batch yap
>
> There are 16 sub-folders under yap/src, and thousands of files, but
> when I run the interactive command, it only shows that it's "scanning"
> about 12 files.  When the batch command is running, I can change a
> file on the Mac, and then change a different file on the RHEL box.
> The change on the RHEL machine will be propagated on the next sync,
> but the change on the Mac usually won't be propagated ever.
>
> Another note, the folder does contain an awful lot of stuff.  Could it
> be that it's just too big?  Should I try cutting it up into multiple
> smaller unison processes?
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Isaac Z. Schlueter
>