[ubuntu-za] Sync folders using git

[Daniël Louw]

Hello All.

Being a CS student at university, I tend to do a lot of work on a computer.
This work is not done on one machine however.
I do work on my home PC, on the PC's in the labs at varsity saving my work
to a thumb drive, and on my netbook when I'm sitting under a tree on campus
(programming outside, in the sun... Wait what?!)

The fact that work is done on the same fileset on three different locations
creates a need to be able to sync files and folders between each other. I've
been using Unison for this very purpose for a while now. But it has an
irritating "feature": When I delete a directory off one copy of my fileset,
and I sync with another copy, the removed directory is right back where It
was, as Unison sees the absence of the deleted directory as a reason to copy
it back from the other source. The same is true for files.

So I thought to myself, why can't I use git? Git is smart enough that when I
delete a file or directory, it will be removed from the other git repo. And
I get the advantage of built in version control for all my programming
projects.
Syncing my netbook and my PC is easy. That's a standard git push from one to
another using ssh. But the thumb drive is troublesome. Sometimes I use it in
my home PC, and sometimes on my netbook.

My question is, how can I use git to sync two folders on one machine, as in
sync my documents folder to the documents folder on my thumb drive?

Thanks!

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Regards

*Daniël Louw*
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