#UNISON FSMONITOR MAC OS#

(Please let me know of any additions or removals to the above list.)

Note that /magento2 is where file files reside inside the virtualized environment in this example. That is, for Magento 2, I am using the following command. I am going old school here at the moment, and just using command line arguments (in a short shell script) to invoke the command. It supports “profiles” to be defined by configuration files on disk. It also supports plain sockets.ĭocumentation for Unison can be found at. Unison uses ssh to log on to the remote server, making it also possible to use on remote cloud servers securely. (You can use file contents checksum instead, but it runs slower.) After that phase, it watches the file system on the client and server hosts for modification events and triggers an incremental sync operation to push changes for modified files to the other end. The default rule to check files is based on file size and timestamps. When you start up Unison, it does a full tree walk doing any necessary file copying. This means for Magento, local file system edits are copied into the virtualized environment, plus any var/generated code created are automatically copied back to the laptop, for use by my IDE during debugging. You can set it up so any change on either file system is automatically replicated to the other side.

#UNISON FSMONITOR MAC OS#

The technology I wanted to focus on for this post is Unison, a bi-directional file syncing application available on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. I personally prefer keeping my files on my local development machine (a laptop in my case) – it is generally faster to develop in (the IDE is faster) and it means I can blow away the virtualized environment at any time, knowing my master source code is safe.īut how then to get the files into the virtualized environment? Virtualization technologies such as Docker, Vagrant, and Virtualbox provide new opportunities for pre-built development environment images.

Unison fsmonitor