Re: Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX?

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 10:47:16AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > It seems like we could use
> >
> >   (cd src && tar cf - .) | (cd dst && tar xf -)
> >
> > here as a more portable alternative. I don't think we can rely on rsync
> > being everywhere.
> 
> Thanks; I wasn't even aware that we used rsync in our tests.  We
> certainly do not want to rely on it.

I don't think we do.

Grepping for rsync in t/, it is mentioned in three places:

  1. In t1509, we use it, but that test script does not run unless you
     set a bunch of environment variables to enable it.

  2. In a sample patch for t4100. Obviously this one doesn't execute. :)

  3. In t5500, to test "rsync:" protocol supported. This is behind a
     check that we can run rsync at all (though it does not properly use
     prereqs or use the normal "skip" procedure).

> Why not "cp -r src dst", though?

I was assuming that the "-P" in the original had some purpose. My "cp
-r" does not seem to dereference symlinks, but maybe there is something
I am missing.

-Peff