You might want to look at Robocopy. It is basically windows answer to rsync.
BOb From: svnusert...@href.com [mailto:svnusert...@href.com] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:07 PM To: users@subversion.apache.org Subject: Re: how to contribute feature of unknown popularity Thank you very much for the replies. About export failing, it happened to me so often, I thought "everyone" would know the details. It occurs when Windows will not allow svn.exe export to write to the file, for any reason. The most common reason in my case was that the file was "in use", e.g. a DLL loaded in memory. Locking of a DLL is a Windows limitation and they probably think it is "by design." Another thing that "locks" files is the readonly attribute (which okay normally would not be there but I did run into it). I have only tested the CollabNet svn.exe (command line) in this regard. The whole thing is completely reproducible so if you want more info on that, let me know. RSync, why not. Good question. Because it seemed completely overwhelming to learn another whole way of doing things, when I was just getting my head around moving 15 years of work from 2 other version control systems on into Subversion. Because I am only starting to run Linux servers and did not want to put RSync there without knowing enough how to admin it. Because when I read the info on using RSync on Windows, it seemed to be yet another product that did not really run on Windows, easily, simply (could be wrong about that... ), and I really dislike the idea of simulating Linux on Windows, not least because the instructions always assume linux know-how and if I had linux know-how, I'd already be running it on Linux. (End rant... just explaining why I was so turned off RSync). Another reason was that the files were already *in* Subversion repositories and it seemed natural to want to take them back out of there. Does RSync automatically work against an existing repository or would that involve having another copy of the files? Maybe "R" stands for Repository. Obviously I don't know anything about RSync other than it sync's something to something. Last reason.... I thought that the spirit of CollabNet was inviting people to collaborate, and here I really thought I had something to contribute. And I say that because, before launching into all this, I read quite a few forum posts from other people over the years who also were wanting to use svn export as lazy-man's sync. It seemed so close to being exactly that, okay if we leave aside bitmaps, all it needed was the idea of selective export and voila, it was a sync. It really does not seem to be as bizarre as selective export of files containing java fragments. As to the proposed solution of exporting everything to a temporary location and then copying selectively (with rsync or otherwise), I ruled that out because it needlessly duplicated all the files -- waste of disk space, processing time and effort. I did in fact do that (with xcopy) during the weeks before Paul coded the skip feature. Here is a link to the modified source: http://greenbreen.com/svn_mod_source/ which implements the --skipfilesmatchingsize feature. -Ann At 11:43 AM 7/15/2010, Stefan Sperling wrote: On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:27:57AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Stefan Sperling <s...@elego.de> wrote: > > Why don't you use rsync, which was designed to solve exactly this problem? > And, at last check as part of an attempt at an rsnapshot based backup > system, it hangs on open files. That is a Windows problem. Windows cannot handle deletions of files that are open. The rsync windows ports should have special logic to deal with this. If they don't, that needs to be fixed. (Or even better, Windows should be fixed...) > > I think that using a high-quality sync tool such as rsync is definitely > > a better solution to the problem you're trying to solve. > > I'm mystified about using export on his core server. Do a checkout and > svn update to a something like "SRCDIR" on the core server, to avoid > the "this file is locked" issue, and use "rsync -av --exclude=.svn > /SRCDIR/ REMOTEHOST:/TARGETDIR/" syntax to push only that updated > code. What is the "this file is locked" issue? There is no difference between checkout and export, except that export does not create the .svn directories. Stefan
