gdrive.md

How to: Shell interaction with Team's Google Drive

Since the team operates with google drive, this markdown illustrates how to integrate the google drive into the workflow with the github repo.

Install rclone

rclone is a command line package to interact with various cloud services. Follow rclone.org/install for installation instructions.

Get started

Verify it is working via

rclone ls remote:

where 'remote' is the name of the created remote in 'rclone config'. The command lists the google drive files of your linked google drive account.
Make sure to rename the folder name of the team's google drive from 'Huawei Tech Challenge' to 'tc' or anything without spaces. This won't change anything on the team's google drive, it is rather for convenience reasons when working with rclone.

mkdir gdrive

Use the gdrive folder if you want to have the google drive files in the git repo folder.

Usage

Live synchronization

Read mount_tutorial. For Linux, workflow can be started with

rclone mount remote:tc ./gdrive/tc

and cancelled with CTRL+C and

fusermount -u ./gdrive

Offline synchronization

Download/sync gdrive via

rclone sync remote:tc ./gdrive

and upload-sync via

rclone sync ./gdrive remote:tc

Make sure to pay attention to commit conflicts when choosing offline synchronization.

More

See rclone.org/commands for more.