Bzr on windows and rsync

[Martin Pool]

On  6 Jun 2006, Mark <mwatts42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have searched the help for examples of using rsync on windows (windows client
> and windows server) but I have not found any.  I did find a reference that
> suggests that some more information on using rsync on windows would help, and I
> agree.
>  
> I am in a situation where i would like to push/pull changes from a repository
> hosted on a Windows 2003 Terminal server where I have the following
> restrictions
> 1) I can't 'install' anything - no rights
> 2) I can modify my local path and copy bzr and rsync to directories in my
> 'home' directory where they would be able to be run from.
>  
> I have never used rsync before and the sheer number of options are a bit
> overwhelming.  I do have a windows version of rsync available but I don't know
> if this is the 'recomended' version for use on windows.
>  
> rsync  version 2.5.7  protocol version 26
> Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
> <http://rsync.samba.org/>
> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
>               no IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

If you can put the rsync exe on the machine and run it then bzr should
be able to call it.  You just need to make sure it's on your PATH so it
can be run.   You don't need to worry about the options; bzr sets them.

-- 
Martin