Did you ever have the situation that you run Xcode on a clean system and all your code snippets were lost? SnippetSync is a very simple tool to sync code snippets from Xcode into a specified folder. This way your snippets are automatically backed up e.g. to Dropbox whenever you make changes to them in Xcode.
Code snippets can also be created/modified/deleted in the backup location and the changes will be synced back to the Xcode snippets folder (restart Xcode to make it recognize the changes).
Beware that this is not a full blown sync solution. It simply listens to some file system events in the given folders and attempts to copy some files back and forth.
If you want to have SnippetSync always run, you can create a Launch Agent that runs in the background and continuously listens for Xcode snippets.
Copy the launch agent plist to ~/LaunchAgents/de.kokodev.SnippetSync and load it:
launchctl load /Users/myuser/Library/LaunchAgents/de.kokodev.SnippetSync.plist
launchctl start de.kokodev.SnippetSync
-h, --help # Show this help
-v, --version # Show SnippetSync version
-e, --extension <fileextension> # A string to match filenames to listen for. Default: .codesnippet
-l, --listenDir <path> # The source snippet directory. Default: Xcode snippet folder
-o, --outputDir <path> # The folder to sync the snippets to. Default: Desktop
-c, --createTarget # If <outputDir> does not exist, create it
-i, --initializeTarget # Initialize the target directory with existing Xcode snippets
-s, --copy-from-source # Initialize source directory with existing files from the output folder
-f, --force # When initializing source/output directories, override files if they exist
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