Use GIT repository of roms for multiple Pi devices?

compiler

Hi all.

I have a couple of Pi devices (Pi 3, Pi 1) with Retropie and all of them use the same ROMs.

I'm getting tired of copying/updating ROMs manually (add new game, delete game, etc) and I was wondering if it would be feasible to maintain the roms in a local GIT repository, (in my NAS), clone it in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms and use "git pull" to update the romset in any of the Pis when desired.

Appart from the ROMs themselves, is there anything in /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/ that I should exclude in a .gitignore file? Any configuration file is created there?

Is there any flaw on this idea? Something I'm missing?

(PD: I prefer not to store the roms in a SMB/CIFS share so that I don't depend of the network, but I like the idea of being able to update roms from a central repo).

mitu

There's a handy 'cloud' enabled saves storage script posted by one of the forum users - https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/18712/script-setup-script-to-sync-saves-to-cloud-services. You can maybe adapt it for your needs; it's based on rclone(rclone.org).
Other than that, git would be easy to implement, but it's a bit overkill for this purpose - unless you'd like to have a versioning system in place. A simple rsync script would suffice.

As for the file types, I guess you'll have to think if you want to synchronize:

save states (*.state[X])
memory saves (*.srm)
artwork/gamelistst (media folder and/or gamelist.xml).