Re: [Opensync-devel] file-sync patches

[Graham C. <g+o...@co...>]

On 26/08/13 18:38, Mark Ellis wrote:
> For example, create a group to sync evolution and file. Evolution 
> commonly uses @ in it's uid scheme. Sync this group, anything that
> comes from evo to file has @ replaced with _ in the resulting
> filename. This has changed the uid, since file-sync stores the uid
> in the filename. Run another sync, anything that had @ replaced
> with _ gets sent as a deletion and an addition.

Mark,

I haven't touched the code of OpenSync for 5 years so I am sure your
analysis is right.  I thought I remembered that there was a table to
map UIDs between plugins but I am probably just confused!

If we need a reversible mapping then let's just agree on the
reserved_chars_allowed list to provide to g_uri_escape_string so that
special characters don't get turned into hex codes unnecessarily.

I suggest using " #$&(),?!@'".  They are all characters that appear
fairly often in subject lines of meetings or in names (both of which
often get used in file names for file-sync).

Graham