Feature request: Listen filesystem events and sync
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enhancement
fsnotify / events
help wanted
IMPORTANT
integration
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
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Description
It would be nice to have rclone in daemon mode, listening some paths and when something change, rclone sync it.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the existing sync command and filesystem-event handling, then define the daemon behavior and add coverage showing that changes under a watched path trigger synchronization.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- backend, cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100