Re: A system administration use case for git

[Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all, it's been quite a while.
> It'd be nice to do this on arbitrary (non-git-controlled) file system tree:
>
> * calculate the git hashes of the tree (without making copies of the
> files in the tree)
> * archive the tree hashes
> * rsync the tree hashes to another place
> * work out which files aren't available in the other place's git repo
> * rsync those files the the other place

Steps:

1 - rsync to the "other place"
2 - use the git repo in that "other place"
3 - if the tree hashes are needed "here", copy them from the "other
place" git to here.

rsync + git = awesomenesssssss




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