Unclear documentation (Readme)

[evbo]

What does this mean?:

You can then sync a local folder to /unison in the container with:

$ unison . socket://<docker>:5000/ -auto -batch

Can you give an example? I blindly copy and pasted the command and of course I get: bash: docker: No such file or directory

[leighmcculloch]

You need to replace the <docker> with the IP address of your docker machine. To find out what that is run docker-machine ls and it should show you something like:

NAME      ACTIVE   DRIVER       STATE     URL                         SWARM   DOCKER   ERRORS
default   *        virtualbox   Running   tcp://192.168.99.187:2376           v1.9.1

[jesseditson]

A common use case here would be unison . socket://$(docker-machine ip default):5000/ -auto -batch - you can change "default" to the name of your machine if you are using a different name, this will always pick up the correct IP.

[Jehu]

more questions:

• you do not describe (or link to a) how to install unison
• what if i use the new beta-docker without docker-machine?

[leighmcculloch]

@Jehu if you use the new beta-docker for mac then you won't need unison for syncing I imagine. Which is fantastic as this docker image was a work around for using docker on Mac and slow file transfers :)

[Jehu]

@leighmcculloch this was my hope also as i installed it. but sadly for real volumes are slower than docker stable (feels like 10% slower, or so...).

btw: without docker-machine it is: unison . socket://localhost:5000/ -auto -batch, because docker needs no VirtualBox anymore.

unison can be installed by homebrew: brew install unison

i hope to resolve my perfomance problems now... ;-)

[leighmcculloch]

@Jehu Thank you, I'm adding notes on how to install unison on Mac to the README in the next version, so hopefully other people will have a better experience. Thanks for sharing how you got it working.