Re: A system administration use case for git

From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 22, 2009, 08:48 UTC
Message-ID: <46a038f90904220148i23f1a75n7036d9726870d5f5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2cfc40320904220133l5ab567f3q46608793b93f0e1f@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:

Show 9 quoted lines

> Hello all, it's been quite a while.
> It'd be nice to do this on arbitrary (non-git-controlled) file system tree:
>
> * calculate the git hashes of the tree (without making copies of the
> files in the tree)
> * archive the tree hashes
> * rsync the tree hashes to another place
> * work out which files aren't available in the other place's git repo
> * rsync those files the the other place

Steps:

1 - rsync to the "other place" 2 - use the git repo in that "other place" 3 - if the tree hashes are needed "here", copy them from the "other place" git to here.

rsync + git = awesomenesssssss

-- 
 martin.langhoff@gmail.com
 martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect
 - ask interesting questions
 - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
 - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff