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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Rsync, Unison or other? Post 302092404 by siegfried on Monday 9th of October 2006 12:52:54 PM
Old 10-09-2006
Rsync, Unison or other?
My client is using perforce. Like CVS, perforce has the feature where you can create your own branch and check broken code into the branch with out breaking the main line build. When you finally get to a point that you are not going to break the build, you merge your branch with mainline.

Unfortunately, they are not using that branch feature here in that way. Maybe we should be but we are not.

The consequence is that I have been working on some files for a month and they are not getting backup up because they are in my perforce sandbox. They need to be checked in (for the purpose of being backed up) but cannot be because I'm not done with them yet (I don't want to break the build!).

I've never used rsync or unison before. Is there some utiltity or set of commands I can use to recursively descend my directory tree looking for files that are not set the "read only" and copy them and their directory paths to a directory that will be backed up?

It seems like the find command could do this, but I'm not sure how to recreate the directory path under some other directory. I would want to run this daily and only copy files that have changed and are read only.

thanks,
siegfried
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gbp-pull

GBP-PULL(1)						      git-buildpackage Manual						       GBP-PULL(1)

NAME

       gbp-pull - Safely update a repository from remote

SYNOPSIS

       gbp-pull  [ --verbose ] [ --force ] [ --redo-pq ] [ --[no-]pristine-tar ] [ --debian-branch=branch_name ] [ --upstream-branch=branch_name ]
       [ --depth=depth ]

DESCRIPTION

       gbp-pull updates the debian, upstream and pristine-tar branches from a remote repository in one go. It checks if the update is safe  (would
       result in a fast-forward merge) and aborts otherwise.

OPTIONS

       --force
	      force a branch update even if this results in a non fast forward update.

	      Warning: Forcing a branch updates makes you lose your modifications.

       --redo-pq
	      also rebuild the corresponding patch-queue using gbp-pq.

	      Warning: This drops the patch-queue branch if it exists.

       --debian-branch=branch_name
	      The branch in the Git repository the Debian package is being developed on, default is master.

       --upstream-branch=branch_name
	      The branch in the Git repository the upstream sources are put onto. Default is upstream.

       --depth=depth
	      Git history depth, for deepening shallow git clones.

       --verbose

       -v     verbose execution

       --pristine-tar
	      Whether to update the pristine-tar branch too.

EXIT CODES

       When gbp-pull finishes it indicates success or failure with it's exit code:

       0      Success.

       1      An error occured during the pull, see the printed error message for details.

       2      At least one branch couldn't be fast forwarded.

CONFIGURATION FILES

       Several	gbp.conf  files  are  parsed  to  set defaults for the above commandline arguments. See the [XRef to GBP.MAN.GBP.CONF] manpage for
       details.

SEE ALSO

       git-buildpackage(1), gbp-clone(1), gbp-pq(1), gbp.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>

								   01 June 2012 						       GBP-PULL(1)
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