Syncing strategy

Sebastian Spaeth Sebastian at sspaeth.de
Thu Dec 9 10:03:54 UTC 2010


On Thu, 9 Dec 2010 09:58:54 +1100, Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net> wrote:
> > I don't see how or why that should be difficult to detect and implement.
> > Although I am sure there are reasons why John has never implemented it
> > so far, so there might be some details hidden that might make it
> > difficult :). I put it on my virtual TODO.
> 
> It requires extra local state - a copy of the folder list on the local
> side, basically.  You can't infer it from the information presently
> stored, as I understand things.

Right, but we have LocalStatus which contains all folders from the last
sync, so if there is a folder added or missing on either the remote or
local side we can tell where it was and if it was an add or remove.

Sebastian



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