From: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:39:17 GMT
Subject: Re: git pull issues...
Message-ID: <118833cc05042317391a441448@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050423220049.GC13222@pasky.ji.cz>

> > 1. Multiple rsync call might connect to different servers (with
> > round-robin DNS).  The effect
> >    will be interesting.  One call, if possible, would be better.
> 
> If you can do it without overwriting HEAD, please go ahead and send me
> the patch. :-)

I'll have a go at it later, but something like this ought to work:

-d .rsync-git && die "previous pull failed -- cleanup"
mkdir .rsync-git || die "cannot create .rsync-git"
ln -s ../.git/objects .rsync-git/objects || die "cannot create symlink"
rsync ... --keep-dirlinks ...
...

Morten