An '--only' / '--include' option

[radex]

An '--only' / '--include' option

[jnross]

I've created a branch with this change: jnross@1dc0275

It still needs tests to be written, but I want to make sure I'm on the right track before going further.

[Mazyod]

I vouch for that, because most of the time my use case to synx one directory, which contains the source files. This option would make it less frightening to run synx.

[ScottRobbins]

Yeah this would be extremely useful

Not only that, but when you're working on a long term project and want to start using synx, now it reorganizes your project file and makes it impossible to code review, along with causing annoying merge conflicts later from other people when you've moved their files.

[marklarr]

I'm thinking about this right now, and I'm at a bit of a mental block. It seems like it would only really make sense to support explicitly --only'ing groups that live under the main group, or are within a tree that also got fully passed in to the --only option. The reason for this is that it's not exactly possible to sync a group without having sync'ed its parents as well, or else the paths just won't make sense.

Does that make sense? What do you guys think?

[marklarr]

As for it being scary to run Synx, I'd just recommend backing up everything in Git always before running it :)

[ScottRobbins]

It seems like it would only really make sense to support explicitly --only'ing groups that live under the main group, or are within a tree that also got fully passed in to the --only option.

That would have to be the case I believe. Otherwise the file system would provide no organizational benefit (and would probably cause too many name conflicts with the paths and similarly named child groups).

[beltex]

Hello all!

I know this is a bit of an old ticket now, but any updates? @jnross: any chance of opening a pull request? I tried running your branch, but it didn't seem to quite work for me, I may have been doing something wrong, or was it still WIP?

[jnross]

My branch was a WIP, I found that that it only worked in certain cases. This one is a little tricky to get right and my need for it has disappeared, so I didn't push further.