Re: Switching from CVS to a more sane VCS
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 12:00:53AM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:12:29AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > This is now working; you can do the following:
> > bzr get http://bugs.debian.org/debbugs-source/mainline/
> > to pull a working copy of the bzr repository.
> >
> > To commit, you'll currently need to bzr pull into
> > /org/bugs.debian.org/source/mainline or use bzr push with sftp.
> > [Hopefully permissions won't be a problem.]
>
> A better idea to commit is to:
>
> (a) get the source via rsync, which'll get you the right timestamps,
> and probably be faster, viz:
>
> rsync -vzaP spohr:/org/bugs.debian.org/source/debbugs-source/mainline/ ./
>
> (b) push via bzr and rsync; first apt-get install bzrtools, then run
>
> bzr push spohr:/org/bugs.debian.org/source/debbugs-source/mainline
>
> Sadly that screws up permissions a bit, but the way rsync works avoids
> most of them being a problem. :-/
I recommend against using rsync push to a shared archive; it has no
locking and might explode or trash the archive without warning. I always
use sftp push with shared archives, even though it's a bit slower.
You can safely get the archive with rsync, though; just don't push it
that way.
> I wish we could get "umask 002" by default on .debian.org boxes, the
> way it's always been on Debian boxes... :)
Amen!
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]
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