Unison is ignoring local config and overriding remote file permissions

Question

If I modify a local file, unison syncs that file but it removes all permissions on the destination server, leaving only the following permissions:

-rw-------

My local config contains the switches which should tell unison to ignore file permissions:

perms = 0
dontchmod = true

I start unison with the following command:

unison -ui text -repeat watch my-server

My local unison is version 2.48.4, remote is 2.48.3

I just reproduced this problem. I can't see why Unison would do this. I'll bet it's a bug. You should go mark it as an issue on the project's GitHub page. This resembles a very old bug that was already fixed. See the very end of the "Changes since 2.27" section of the Unison manual. — Mike Pierce, Jan 08 '17 at 18:25

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 09 '17 at 05:18

Somehow, this issue went away. I'm not sure which of the following fixed it, but here's what I did:

Deleted my local replica and the archive files under ~/.unison
Uninstalled then reinstalled unison locally (the same version, 2.48.4)
Added force = ssh://username@my-remote-server//home to the config to mirror the remote server
Once it had synced, I removed the force config option and started as usual

Now, for whatever reason and despite the version mismatch, the permissions are working fine.

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