Cloud download to Android

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Sun, Dec 06, 2015 at 09:16:42PM +0200, Willem Ferguson wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 15:21, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> >2) In Preferences->Network, I set Sync to cloud in background to OFF.
> >Why? All this means is that now Subsurface no longer syncs the remote
> >repository at save time.
> >
> My impression was that this means that if the cloud storage is the default
> dive log, it will only sync at save time. It will not try anything in the
> background that I cannot directly see and control. Is this view erroneous?

It is. The option is poorly named and should most probably just be
removed. Initially the remote git storage (cloud storage) would only sync
when you OPENED the file, but not when you saved. The rationale was that
synching when you saved at exit would possibly mean that it took
Subsurface a very long time to exit. I don't think that was a good call
and think we should just remove the option.

> >I somehow doubt this because your git repo was broken. For some reason
> >Subsurface hadn't updated your branch ref to point to the latest commit.
> >Something I need to investigate once I'm actually awake.
> >I'm 99.9% certain that this was because of the issue mentioned above.
> >I manually fixed the repo on the server and am guessing that a download
> >from Android will work now.
> Yes, it works well. Thank you SO much for this. A question about the
> interaction between the git repository and Android. If one selects Save
> Changes on Android, does it update the remote repository as well? It would
> be counterproductive not to?

Yes, it does save to the cloud storage as well as to the local cache.

> >PS: going back to bed...
> >
> My greatest apology.

You didn't wake me up. That was my geriatric dogs. I just decided to
quickly fix your problem so you wouldn't be stuck until I got up a second
time... but wanted to express that I wasn't going to be online for a few
more hours :-)

/D