[brainstorm]Online contact sync

[ajvogel]

Neil Jerram wrote:
> 
> 2009/10/18 Atilla Filiz <atilla.filiz at gmail.com>
> 
>> I don't know others but I occasionally switch distros and have multiple
>> computers. I thought different people might be in the same condition. I
>> actually don't how many people use Google contacts, but it's there.
> 
> 
> OK, so this is primarily something for your own use only.  You also
> mentioned giving contacts to other people - hence my uncertainty - but I
> guess you would do that from a copy of the contacts on one of your
> computers, and not from the online repository.
> 
> So the next question is what form does the online repository need to take?
> In the simplest case it could be just a plain file (e.g. vcf format) that
> you upload to the web space that your ISP provides for you...
> 
> 
Maybe the dev`s for pisi could extend it to include syncing to an vcf file
over ftp/ssh? Maybe it already does?


Neil Jerram wrote:
> 
> But you mentioned git...  Is that because you are also looking to track
> changes over time?
> 

git might not be the best thing here, since encrypting the vcf would
essentially create a completely different file each time.


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