On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 09:02 -0800, Richard Lee wrote: > src(local copy) --> dst(svn working copy)
> I want to sync changes over from src to dst, leaving the [.svn] folders intact > on the dst, as long as the folder containg the [.svn] folder still exists in > the source. i.e. If a folder is deleted from src I would like it to be > deleted from dst, this implies that its .svn folder is deleted in dst. > (Additions and changes are handled automatically by svn.) > So what I did is a rsync fom src to dst with --exclude=".svn" --delete > --force. However if I delete a folder say myfol from source which also > exists in dst, I says that it cannot delete it. Obviously this is due to the > fact that rsync recurses and finds and protects the .svn in myfol. What you need is the "p" modifier to a protect rule, which makes it not protect a destination file whose parent no longer exists on the source. Use --filter='Pp .svn'. Copying to an svn working tree was actually a major use case motivating the addition of the "p" modifier: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3825 -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
