From: Mark Woodward <markonlinux@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T20:50:05+09:00
Subject: Re: cp * except .svn directories

Hi all,

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:58:52 +1000, Mark Woodward wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> sorry if this is a repost! Don't know if it's Pan or my ISP but there's
> some weirdness going on ATM!
> 
> What I'd like to be able to do is write a script that can copy all
> files/directories from a subversion repository except .svn directories.
> 
> This is the best I can come up with from the command line (be gentle ;-)):
> 
>    1. cd to repos dir
>          1. tar --exclude=".svn" -cvf foo.tar *
>          2. mv foo.tar /path/to/new
>    2. cd /path/to/new
>    3. tar -xvf foo.tar
> 
> It works but I'm hoping there's a way to do this in a ruby script. If possible
> I'd like to be able to input "/path/to/new".
> 
> So if I'm in the repos dir:
> 
>         cp_wo_svn.rb
>         "to where?":    /var/www
>         "done!"
> 
> 
> thanks,

thanks to all for the suggestions. Paul, yep I settled on Julians solution
though they all work! 

repos2local.rb
exec "rsync -arvz $HOME/svnwd/Proj1/www/ /var/www/ --exclude=\".svn\""

This copies the 'www' folder from the repos over to /var/www (ignoring
the .svn folders) but I'd now like to extend this. ie.

repos2local.rb
exec "rsync -arvz $HOME/svnwd/Proj1/www/ /var/www/ --exclude=\".svn\""
exec "rsync -arvz $HOME/svnwd/Proj1/includes/ /var/includes/
--exclude=\".svn\""

ie chain together commands.

This only does the first exec and I'm wondering is this a 'thread' issue
or similar?

Any ideas how I handle this?


thanks,


-- 
Mark