On 29Aug2018 22:44, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote:
So as to not lose the benefits of a version control system, I have
installed Git on my windows PC. My current workflow now has gotten
more complex, and I'm sure can be improved by those thinking more
clearly than I (And surely more knowledgeable!), and is as follows:
1) Using CuteFTP copy all of my original working code (Now with
problems due to the planning software upgrade.) to my windows PC.
2) Put this code under Git version control.
3) Create a development branch.
4) FTP this back to Solaris for code repair, testing, etc. BUT!
This process has changed all of the Unix file permissions on what are
(For me.) many files, some planning system proprietary scripting
files, some Perl files, some shell script files and some Python files.
So before I can do anything further I must go through all of these
files and change their permissions to the values I need them to be.
This is quite tedious and error prone. So I wish to either fix the
process, or, failing that, automate the process of correcting the file
permissions.
If there is a way in this CuteFTP software to maintain file
permissions in this back-and-forth transferring between a Windows and
Solaris environment, I have yet to find it in the software's help
(Though I have not yet had much time to invest in this search, so I
may not have found it yet.).
It occurs to me that in theory it should be possible to automate this
either with a shell script or a Python program.
Is there a standard way of handling this sort of thing? Bear in mind
that if a typical solution would require the installation of a
software package in the Solaris environment, I am not allowed to do
so. I am not allowed to use Python pip either. Strange rules ...
Does rsync exist on your Solaris system? Can you get rsync and ssh on your
Windows system?
The "standard" UNIX solution to reproduce a directory somewhere is rsync these
days, which will work over ssh (by default) if the target is remote.
IIRC, git doesn't track file permissions, so you can't just "export" from your
WIndows git (or some mirror elsewhere).
So: do you have rsync? Do you have ssh from your PC to the Solaris box?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
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