Post by Jeff KingPost by Neal KreitzingerDoes anyone have an example of an rsync bash script that will make
a good copy of a non-bare git repo (including the working tree)
while the "source" git repo is busy and the "destination" git repo
is quiet?
Don't copy the working tree. It's redundant with the repo data
(assuming your working tree is clean), so you are probably faster to
sync .git and then "reset --hard". And then you don't have to worry
about fetching an inconsistent working tree state.
1. Copy the refs to a local temp space.
2. Copy the object db.
3. Install your temp refs into place.
That way, for any updates in progress you will either not copy them
(because the refs weren't in place in step 1, though you may have
some of their objects), or if you do copy them, you are guaranteed to
have all of the necessary objects (because git will not update the
ref until all objects are in place).
But I really have to wonder why you don't simply use git to do the
fetch? It already does the right thing with respect to updates, and
it will be way more efficient than rsync in the face of repacking (or
if you really do want to use rsync, there is even an rsync transport
Post by Neal KreitzingerThis would make it very easy for us to refresh our "beta" livebox
to emulate the current "gold" livebox using a single rsync instead
of a combination of rsync and git-clone/pull due to the pieces that
git does not replicate (ie, hooks) and the non-git components of
our git based change control menu system (which is written in bash
scripts on linux).
You just don't want to do a pull in addition to an rsync. But I
don't think this solution will be any less complex.
One reason is that we only have one development box. We would have to
open up the canonical repo and development repos to git:// protocol
access. If I use git I have to do the initial clones for creation and
then the pulls for refreshes. rsync will do the creation and refreshes
via the same script. If I use git I would have to rsync the hooks,
config, and anything else git doesn't bring over. On the goldbox I have
a bare repo that mirrors the canonical repo and then has additional
branches and is in turn mirrored by another bare mirror which has all
the additional branches. I would have to recreate the original remote
branch setup and then still maintain the remotes to the goldbox. Then I
wouldn't really have a simulation of the goldbox anymore because I have
extra remotes (maybe that wouldn't really hurt anything). Rsync seems
like a simpler solution and more accurate solution for creating a copy
of an ecosystem of interrelated git repos colocated on the same box.
A previous post in the newsgroup states:
"> If you want your rsync backup to be fine, you need to follow some
Post by Jeff Kingordering. You need to copy the refs first (.git/packed-refs and
.git/refs/), then the loose objects (.git/objects/??/*), and then all
the rest. If files are copied in a different order while some write
operations are performed on the source repository then you may end up
with an incoherent repository."
Would that work?
v/r,
neal