FreeFileSync is a graphical folder comparison and synchronization software. See its homepage at freefilesync.org.

This repo contains a Flatpak manifest for building a Flatpak package for FreeFileSync. You can download the the final Flatpak package from Flathub.

To install FreeFileSync through Flathub, visit flathub.org/apps and click on FreeFileSync. It should open in a supported software center (like GNOME Software) with the option to install the app.

Or you can use the command line:

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
flatpak install flathub org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync

This package contains two tools named FreeFileSync and RealTimeSync. Simply search for either of them in your desktop app launcher.

Or you can use the command line:

flatpak run org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync

or

flatpak run --command=RealTimeSync org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync

Please become a co-maintainer

Since there is no version control for FreeFileSync, the exploded tarball for each version is pushed into the src branch. Patches are kept in patchNN-description branches and rebased on top of new releases. (The reason for this is to make patch rebasing more comfortable and maintainable. A new release is still built from the tarball, not from the src branch.)

The workflow for building a new release REL is:

git branch REL master
# download new tarball into tarball/
git checkout src
rm src -rf
unzip -d src tarball/<tarball>.zip
git add -A
git commit

# for each patchNN branch, do:
git checkout patchNN
git rebase src
# end for

git checkout REL

# for each patchNN branch, do:
git diff src patchNN > ./patchNN.patch
# end for

# adjust *appdata.xml and *FreeFileSync.yml
flatpak-builder builddir org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync.yml --force-clean --ccache
# test the app
flatpak-builder --run builddir org.freefilesync.FreeFileSync.yml FreeFileSync

git add -A
git commit
git push -u origin REL
# submit a PR

# after merging PR to master
git branch -d REL
git push -d origin REL
git checkout master
git tag vREL
git push --tags
# push all modified branches (patchNN, src)

See the progress and controls for new builds at Flathub buildbot.