Possibility to sync local > remote

[icetee]

Possibility to sync local > remote

[grenierdev]

I'm open to suggestion, I never found a method that work. I did try to do one based on file size but the result was sometime false negative. Are you aware of a robust method to sync 2 folder?

[rafaelrp]

unfortunately i don't know any method that work for sync, i know that a plugin for Sublime has this feature, the plugin is SFTP Sublime, maybe can get some ideas from this plugin.

Maybe work with date and time should work.

[grenierdev]

I've uploaded some code I had done before in a separated branch. It only compare files based on their file size. Still rough and if you'd like to test it out, be sure to use it on a dummy project.

Comparing files with their modification date is quite puzzling as local time differ from remote (timezone, misconfiguration on local/server, etc)

[grenierdev]

Merged in master 0.4.7. Still rough on the edges.

[rafaelrp]

I'm getting this error too,
#33

[hatzopoulos]

@mgrenier

On the topic of comparing files.

Perhaps in .ftpconfig you could add a timezone offset setting like Filezilla has which then users can use to input server time difference to local time. That could mitigate some of the issues with using date checks. Reference: https://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Server_timezone_offset

Another more complicated idea, would be to use something like rsync's --checksum option to do a slower comparison, but for that you'll probably need rsync on the path and use a wrapper and I don't think there is rsync for windows, and in any case certainly not installed by default. Another software I've seen that does FTP syncing very well was ultracompare

[grenierdev]

@hatzopoulos That's a nice idea! I had though along those line : on sync, create a empty file on remote, check the difference with local time, remove empty file, use difference in the time comparison.

Haven't got much time these days, will look into this path next time!