Re: [Storagesync] Storagesync Digest, Vol 5, Issue 1

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 08 December 2015 21:25 UTC

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Tuesday, Dec 8, 2015 1:59 PM Markus Unterwaditzer wrote:
> Per-file conflicts can be detected with just etags. In the case of file-sync
> this is often the only thing you can do, since conflict-resolution depends on
> the filetype. Dropbox stores both copies in such cases. I'd say this is
> reasonably efficient for average usecases.

Can you explain how per-file conflicts can be detected using etags?


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