From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:41:54 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] -rsync: exclude version control files In-Reply-To: (Thomas De Schampheleire's message of "Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:26:38 +0100") References: Message-ID: <87d2uy3zz1.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas De Schampheleire writes: Thomas> When using rsync to import package sources (typically with Thomas> PKG_OVERRIDE_SRCDIR), it often happens that these external sources Thomas> are under version control, and contain directories like .git, Thomas> .hg, etc. Thomas> Depending on the project, these directories can become pretty large Thomas> and typically have a lot of files. Moreover, they are not necessary Thomas> in the context of building the package. Therefore, this commit adds Thomas> the --cvs-exclude option to the rsync call, saving both disk space Thomas> and sync time. It seems the agreement is that people don't mind the missing .git/.svn/.. files, so committed - Thanks. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard