Fetch Softworks

Identifying Changes -- using Jekyll (3 posts)

• Started 8 years ago by Ron Jeffries
• Latest reply 8 years ago from Ron Jeffries

• Ron Jeffries Member

  I understand Mirror can move only "changed" files. I'm wondering how "changed" is determined.

  Details: I'm generating the site with Jekyll. It essentially recreates the entire site on each run, which means that every file in the generate has a new date, even if its contents are equal to what they were. I'd prefer not to move a thousand files every time I write a new blog.

  Competitor Transmit can decide to upload based on file size. This is pretty decent but can of course fail when I change "thsi" to "this".

  So I'm wondering if Fetch does something more sophisticated or has some other way of avoiding pushing the entire site.

  Thanks!

  Posted 8 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  Fetch only compares modification dates, so it would upload every file each time you regenerated the site. I wish I knew of an efficient way to detect changed files in a situation like yours.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 8 years ago #

• Ron Jeffries Member

  Thanks! I'm thinking i'll need to write a synchronizer that compares files locally and builds a tree that I can then mirror. Of course maybe there is a file sync app that includes compare.
  Thanks again!

  Posted 8 years ago #