Add an option to flatten the hierarchy on disk, while retaining Xcode groups

[tonyarnold]

Add an option to flatten the hierarchy on disk, while retaining Xcode groups

[marklarr]

😱 unsynx?

[tonyarnold]

👍 exactly

[marklarr]

why would you want to do that?

[ayanonagon]

Whether this is something that people want or not, I don’t think this should be a part of synx since it kind of does the exact opposite thing that we want to do with synx. 😬

[tonyarnold]

Why would I want all my classes stored hierarchically on disk?

Mainly because I prefer to store my classes in a single directory (they all have to have unique names anyway, right?) and once someone has run synx over a project it's really, really time consuming to reverse.

I figured there was knowledge in this project of how I might go about flattening things back out.

Not to worry, thanks for your time guys.

[marklarr]

@tonyarnold I do agree with @ayanonagon that it doesn't really belong in synx. Most of the code in synx is logic around doing the actual synchronization.

That said, I think what you're proposing would be pretty easy. You just need to use the xcodeproj rubygem to loop over all of your Xcode objects and set their system path to the root, and then get rid of all of the system folders recursively. Maybe a separate ruby gem for that? If you have any questions, I'd be glad to help.

[tonyarnold]

Thanks @marklarr, I'll have a look at it later today and ask if I have any questions. Thanks :)

[marklarr]

Maybe the easiest option would be a fork of synx and then just poking around and changing lines until we get what we want. It wouldn't be the cleanest but it definitely would be fast