Dirk,
Thank you.
Good to know about the Git repository.
And I do think Subsurface is a superior project.
John
Sent from my android device.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]>
To: John Griffiths <[email protected]>
Cc: Subsurface Mailing List <[email protected]>
Sent: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: Subsurface-mobile
> On Jul 27, 2017, at 6:23 PM, Dirk Hohndel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I will consider my options. If I can store locally as well as syncing to
>> your server, then I will probably do so.
>
> Yes it does. The way our remote storage works is that it keeps all of the
> data in a git repository. There is a local git repository that it stores on
> your local machine (as well as on your device for Subsurface-mobile). All
> changes are first written to that local repository and THEN synchronized with
> the server. This has a few cool side effects... among other things, it allows
> fairly clever synchronization between device and computer, it allows you to
> undo any changes that you may have made and later regret (or that bugs cause)
> -- but that requires messing with the git repo which we don't support from
> within Subsurface; yet if you know your way around git it's very easy to
> recover things. And of course it ensures that you are never without your
> data, whether you are on an island with bad internet or my server goes down...
Oh, and you can, of course, at any time store your data to a local XML file as
well.
/D
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