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Unison file synchronizer

24 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 2 stories, 22 comments · first 2017-07-16 · latest 2026-01-23

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  1. …[0] over ssh, BTW. It's a great piece of software (multiplatform, and it even has a GUI). [0] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
    comment by aruggirello · 2026-01-23 · in What has Docker become?
  2. At first I thought it was about this. https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
    comment by eej71 · 2025-11-25 · in Unison 1.0
  3. …used Unison to keep substantial parts of my home directory in sync between the two machines. [1]: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
    comment by mhw · 2025-05-29 · in RSyncUI – A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync
  4. …to map different path on each side and you can exclude by path, filename, and suffix, etc. [1]: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
    comment by funcDropShadow · 2024-09-02 · in How to sync Mac and Linux /home
  5. …was related to the trusty old Unison two-way file synchronisation tool and my heart skipped a beat. https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/
    comment by wooptoo · 2024-02-07 · in Unison Cloud
  6. I was hoping this was like rsync.net, but for unison: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison Trademarks are hard.
    comment by hedora · 2024-02-07 · in Unison Cloud
  7. …you can see that some versions say they are protocol compatible with prior X.Y version release https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/releases But I have seen problems when one version was far ahead of the other
    comment by lizknope · 2024-02-07 · in Unison File Synchronizer
  8. …names in the world but this is going to completely ruin searches for the Unison file synchronizer: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
    comment by LeoPanthera · 2024-02-07 · in Unison Cloud
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    Unison File Synchronizer
    story by smartmic · 2024-02-07 · 26 comments
  10. You might want to try Unison: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison I've been using it to great effect for over 10 years on a daily basis.
    comment by avhception · 2024-01-27 · in Rclone syncs your files to cloud storage
  11. I highly recommend Unison ( https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison ) It allows you to sync between 2 machines (bi-directional) over TCP or SSH. Note that TCP way is not encrypted, you may use wireguard as transport layer encryption for that…
    comment by pvtmert · 2023-12-22 · in Ask HN: Best modern file transfer/synchronization protocol?
  12. …computer scientist Benjamin Pierce, and now decades of tweaking by a strong open source community. https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison I'd love to see Darke Files get everything right that Unison gets right, that nearly all commercial…
    comment by Syzygies · 2023-04-24 · in Darke Files is a version control and file synchronization system
  13. …been using Unison [1] to sync two and more computers for years. I can't recommend it enough. [1]: https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
    comment by funcDropShadow · 2023-02-01 · in DIY triple-screen laptop based on the framework
  14. Have a look at unison, it's what I use instead of Syncthing and I couldn't be more happy. https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison edit: Also, KeepassXC!
    comment by avhception · 2023-01-25 · in LastPass breach gets worse
  15. …- https://github.com/mirage/mirage - https://github.com/returntocorp/semgrep - https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison See https://v2.ocaml.org/learn/companies.html for some more leads, as lots of those companies maintain useful OSS softwar
    comment by abathologist · 2022-12-16 · in OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out
  16. https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison I use this to keep a few machines synced up. Including a machine that does proper daily backups.
    comment by ysopex · 2022-12-09 · in The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync
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    Unison News – Changes in 2.52.0
    story by currysausage · 2022-03-16 · 1 comment
  18. …used it myself for a work thing and it was quite useful. I'm just surprised every time I go back to https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/issues/375 and see the wire protocol still hasn't been fixed to work across different versions.
    comment by yawaramin · 2021-11-11 · in Types and Programming Languages (2002)
  19. Maybe also look into unison ( https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison ) instead of rsync so you get 2-way sync :)
    comment by avhception · 2021-07-07 · in Libimobiledevice – Open-source library to communicate with iOS devices natively
  20. …experience, and the the principal technology behind docker-sync. (Mac users will thank me.) [1] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison [2] http://docker-sync.io/
    comment by paulddraper · 2020-02-22 · in OCaml 4.10
  21. …to the OS X GUI (thanks to Alan Schmitt and Craig Federighi). Here are Craig's commits: - https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/commit/48f8e1b27edbe2df... - https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison/commit/6645d1793ce843f6... Around the same…
    comment by rgovostes · 2019-08-06 · in Unison File Synchronizer
  22. …ttps://pl-rants.net/posts/case-for-new-lang/ ). Another systems software written in OCaml is unison ( https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison ), which is a file synchronization tool with a clear specification. But if you want to write…
    comment by jasim · 2019-03-03 · in Functional Programming in OCaml
  23. …to unison [1] was a great way to see a more tangible example of using OCaml to create software [1] https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison
    comment by meritt · 2018-08-10 · in Introduction to OCaml
  24. …file sync tool for win/posix from Benjamin Pierce, the author of Software foundations and TAPL) https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison * mirage (which also has a bunch of interesting subprojects, like irmin) https://github.com/mirage * coq…
    comment by ernst_klim · 2017-07-16 · in A deep dive into Multicore OCaml garbage collector