One could consider to ask for remote and local changes at the same time -- these two actions do not need to happen in sequence. Or maybe it already is done like that?
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Absolutely. We discussed this when talking about speeding up the discovery phase and agree that it makes a lot of sense to do remote and local discovery in parallel.
Ideally we could trust our file watchers enough to run the local discovery - the slowest part if the sync folder is big - only once per sync client lifetime.
This came up also in @ogoffart 's https://github.com/owncloud/client/wiki/New-Discovery-Reconcile-Algorithm
Done in 2.6
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