bzr export/push with rsync

[William Dode]

On 22-11-2005, John A Meinel wrote:
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> William Dode wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> It was a discussion some days ago to decide if push could also export
>> the tree, i need this to let somes users to take a snapshot of the tree=
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>> by rsync. What was decided finaly ?
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>> I could use the push plugin of bzrtools but now the commands have the
>> same names ! What is the plan for bzrtools push ?
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> You could use my rsync plugin, which provides "rpush" and "rpull". It is
> available from here:
> http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/plugins/bzr-rsync/
>
> It needs to be cleaned up a bit, to make it a little bit safer. Right
> now it uses the ".bzr/parent" location to determine if the trees are out
> of date, which means that if you have a parent which is not the same as
> your x-rsync-data location, you could accidentally overwrite things when
> you aren't supposed to. The bzrtools plugin would download the
> revision-history file using rsync, so it had to connect 2 times.
>
> Also, whatever method you use, rsync will wipe out remote changes (we
> don't do merging, just flat copying). Which is reasonable for some use
> cases, but not the truly "correct" method.

Thanks to clarify this, it's exactly what i need, a mirror.

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