added support for Google Chrome

[vitorgalvao]

In response to #37.

[lra]

I'm not sure about this one.
I use Google Chrome and everything is already in sync by using a Google Account.
I'm scared that it would conflict with the internal syncing system of GChrome.

[vitorgalvao]

As stated in #37, “when you sync with chrome it does not bring over any preferences form the extensions you have installed”, so you do not actually have everything in sync. This would do it. Another strong reason is, like @nZac stated, “this could be helpful if you don't want Google to own your data”. Syncing it this way is then superior in both configuration and privacy terms (and it also opens this option for people that use Chrome but do not have a Google account).

I’d argue that users have no reason to sync Chrome with both mackup and Google’s system, and mackup does allow you control what is synced and what is not. Maybe this could be added as “do not sync unless specifically told to”, like (arguably) ssh should be.

[lra]

Yes but enabling it by default would break a lot of configuration, e.g. everyone using a Google Account.
There is still no clear way to not enable every app sync by default.

[lra]

And won't Chrome support syncing of extensions in the future ? Looks dumb from Google to not try to solve this problem.

[vitorgalvao]

I’m not sure it would break existing configurations (it could, tough, so some testing is needed on this).

I think you can actually sync preferences from extensions, but each extension must specify that (not sure, but I seem to remember reading something to that effect), which means it’s essentially useless, unless the developer does it, which is (as I see it) the exact use case for mackup (after all, if every developer provided a syncing option, you wouldn’t have needed to build this tool in the first place).

[vitorgalvao]

Updated to reflect the new way mackup is structured.

[lra]

Depends on #614

[vitorgalvao]

Doing some tests on this, this isn’t a good candidate for backup. If we’re too broad directories get huge (several GBs) and if we’re too narrow we won’t backup enough.

[lra]

nice, thanks for digging.