submitted by 
sumomi
on 01-05-2008
Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
Unison shares a number of features with tools such as configuration management packages (CVS, PRCS, Subversion, BitKeeper, etc.), distributed filesystems (Coda, etc.), uni-directional mirroring utilities (rsync, etc.), and other synchronizers (Intellisync, Reconcile, etc). However, there are several points where it differs:
* Unison runs on both Windows and many flavors of Unix (Solaris, Linux, OS X, etc.) systems. Moreover, Unison works across platforms, allowing you to synchronize a Windows laptop with a Unix server, for example.
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Latest changes:
- Major rewrite and cleanup of the whole Mac OS X graphical user interface by Craig Federighi. Thanks, Craig!!!
- Several small fixes to the GTK2 UI to make it work better under Windows [thanks to Karl M for these].
- The backup functionality has been completely rewritten. The external interface has not changed, but numerous bugs, irregular behaviors, and cross-platform inconsistencies have been corrected.
- The Unison project now accepts donations via PayPal. You can find a link to the donation page on the Unison home page.
- Some important safety improvements
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